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Let’s Talk Agentic Development: Spotify x Anthropic Live AI agents are transforming the way we build — and even how we think of ourselves as software developers. Both Spotify and Anthropic have been exploring what this shift means in practice, and on March 30, we got together at…
Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation Introduction Personalized apps have become essential for improving user experience across diverse user bases. Rather than providing a one-size-fits-all experience for the “average user,” personalization deli…
Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Honk, Part 3) This is part 3 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents (internal codename: “Honk”) and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also part 1 and part…
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Spotify FOSS Fund TL;DR Established in 2022 as a way to help support the great open source ecosystem projects that Spotify relies on and that our developers love, the Spotify FOSS Fund provides monetary support to projects that under…
Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights Every year, Spotify Wrapped gives hundreds of millions of listeners a snapshot of your year in listening. For 2025 Wrapped, we wanted to go deeper. What if we could identify interesting listening moments from your…
How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2) Introduction In Part 1 of “How We Release the Spotify App”, we gave an overview of how the Spotify release process works. In Part 2, we will peek under the hood at the tooling that makes it possible. To understand wh…
Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising Introduction When we kicked this off, we weren’t trying to ship an “AI feature.” We were trying to fix a structural problem in how our ads business actually runs in software. On the business side, we have multiple ways of buyi…