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 Aug 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 Juni 202344min
19: Engineering for Accessibility
We’re often focused on features that improve the experience for users — letting them do something better, faster, smarter. But if you don’t consider accessibility issues, many users won’t be able to u...
1 Juni 202336min
18: Meet Your Personal AI DJ
How do you make an AI-generated voice feel more like a real person? You give it a real personality. Spotify recently released a new feature in the US and Canada called DJ. Turn it on, and you hear a c...
4 Maj 202333min
17: Building Apps at Spotify Scale
What happens when the standard tooling for iOS and Android just doesn't cut it anymore? What’s it like to maintain an app when there are literally thousands of commits every week? How do you develop y...
16 Mars 202341min
16: Backstage Adopters Speak
Whether you’re working at a major financial institution or an audio streaming platform, it turns out engineering teams face a lot of the same challenges to doing their jobs effectively. In this episod...
23 Feb 202333min
15: Your Very Own Developer Advocate
There are thousands of developers building great Spotify experiences — who don’t actually work at Spotify. From smart speakers to game consoles to car infotainment systems, how do we support this dive...
2 Feb 202341min
14: For Love and Money?
From Norway to Nebraska, there are individual developers keeping the open source projects that we all depend on going. Last year, Spotify started an annual fund to help support maintainers of free and...
12 Jan 202342min
