27: Measuring Developer Productivity
Host and principal engineer Dave Zolotusky talks with Kyle Buttner, a product manager on Spotify’s insights team, to discuss Spotify's journey in measuring developer productivity — from how we evaluat...
18 Huhti 202432min
26: A Trillion Events
How did we learn to do event delivery at scale at Spotify? It’s been a journey. When you do something like tap the play button in the Spotify app, that’s an event. And getting that event data is funda...
8 Helmi 202438min
25: Voice Translation *Release Notes*
We’ve seen generative AI and large language models do some amazing things in the past year — but how do you go from a tech demo to a real shipping product? In this Release Notes episode of the NerdOut...
11 Tammi 202419min
24: Tesla *Release Notes*
Over the summer, Spotify helped Tesla engineers ship a major update to their built-in media player. In this Release Notes episode, host Dave Zolotusky talks with Spotify engineering manager Geetika Ar...
9 Marras 202315min
23: Searching for Neighbors with Voyager
How do you get a machine to find a song that’s similar to another song? What properties of the song should it look for? And then does it just compare each track to every other track, one by one, until...
19 Loka 202334min
22: Declarative Infra and Beyond
In the very old days, if you needed more storage for your database, you had to walk into the data center and install another server. Now you can just log into your cloud provider’s console and click a...
24 Elo 202344min
21: The Man Who Killed ABBA
Last episode, we talked about ABBA, our first A/B testing tool. We used it to test UI changes, new features, content recommendations — anything and everything we could think of. ABBA was so good and w...
3 Elo 202345min
20: The Rise and Fall of ABBA
Back in the day, Spotify built a custom A/B testing tool called ABBA. It was great. The platform enabled lots of teams to try out lots of ideas for new features to see what worked and what didn’t. Wit...
22 Kesä 202344min
