How Spotify Uses Kubernetes

On April 16, 2025, Spotify experienced a significant outage affecting users worldwide due to a bug triggered by a change in Envoy Proxy filter order.

The article provides insights into the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) exam, a new certification offered by The Linux Foundation that validates skills in building and managing Backstage, an ope...

Spotify has been awarded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Top End User Award for the second time at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago.

Spotify has introduced Voyager, a new nearest-neighbor search library that significantly improves upon its predecessor, Annoy, by offering increased speed and accuracy.

The article discusses a new method for analyzing volatile memory on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) nodes at Spotify.

This article discusses fleet-wide refactoring at Spotify, detailing the tools and strategies developed to manage code changes across thousands of Git repositories.

This article discusses Spotify's transition to a declarative infrastructure model using Kubernetes, enabling efficient management of cloud resources across numerous services.

The article discusses Spotify's integration of the Podz ML pipeline using Google Dataflow to generate podcast previews efficiently.

The article discusses Spotify's load testing strategies for its annual Wrapped campaign, which faced significant traffic challenges due to millions of users engaging simultaneously.

The article discusses Spotify's evolution in machine learning (ML) infrastructure, emphasizing the integration of Ray to enhance flexibility and scalability for diverse ML practitioners.

The article discusses the development of infrastructure at Spotify to enhance user forecasting capabilities in response to the company's global expansion.

Spotify has launched a Free and Open Source Software Fund (FOSS Fund) to support independent open source projects, starting with an initial amount of 100K EUR.

NerdOut@Spotify is a new podcast launched by Spotify that focuses on the company's engineering and development challenges.

This article discusses Spotify's migration of its Event Delivery Infrastructure (EDI) to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), detailing the challenges faced, solutions implemented, and the resulting improv...

The article discusses how Spotify improved developer effectiveness through the implementation of Backstage, a platform designed to streamline the developer experience by reducing context switching ...

Spotify recently won the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Top End User Award, recognizing its commitment to cloud native technologies and contributions to the open source community.

The article celebrates the first anniversary of Backstage, Spotify's open-source developer portal, highlighting its rapid growth and commitment to the community.

The article discusses the challenges developers face when using Kubernetes for service deployment and introduces Backstage Kubernetes as a solution to simplify the management of services across mul...

XCMetrics is an open-source tool designed for tracking Xcode build metrics, enabling iOS engineers to collect and analyze data from build logs.

The article announces the acceptance of Backstage, Spotify's open source developer portal, into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox.

The article discusses Spotify's 'Listening Together' campaign, which visualizes real-time musical connections among users worldwide.

The article discusses how Spotify employs the concept of Golden Paths to address fragmentation in its software ecosystem, enhancing developer experience and productivity.

The article discusses Backstage, an open-source developer portal created by Spotify to unify infrastructure tooling and services.

The article discusses Spotify's journey in improving its Machine Learning infrastructure using TensorFlow Extended (TFX) and Kubeflow.

Spotify's Event Delivery system is a crucial component for understanding user behavior and delivering personalized content.

The article discusses Spotify's approach to user privacy through a centralized encryption system called Padlock, which manages user data encryption keys.

The article discusses Spotify's approach to autoscaling Pub/Sub consumers within its Event Delivery system, which is crucial for managing the vast number of events generated daily.