Spotify Articles

AI•2026-03-12

Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights

This article explains how Spotify built the Wrapped Archive feature, generating 1.4 billion personalized LLM-based listening reports for approximately 350 million users.

Architecture•2026-02-19

Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising

Spotify introduces a multi-agent AI architecture to unify advertising media planning across Direct, Self-Serve, and Programmatic buying channels.

How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2)

Spotify's Release Manager Dashboard is a Backstage plugin that consolidates release data from ~10 systems into a single interface for managing Android, iOS, and Desktop app releases.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Spotify FOSS Fund

Spotify announces the three recipients of its 2025 FOSS Fund, providing financial support to open source projects critical to its technology stack.

Architecture•2026-01-07

Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation

Spotify explains why they maintain separate tech stacks for personalization and experimentation rather than combining them into one system.

Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Honk, Part 3)

Spotify shares how they designed reliable background coding agents ("Honk") using strong verification loops to minimize incorrect or broken pull requests at scale.

Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Honk, Part 2)

Spotify shares lessons from building a background coding agent ("Honk") that automates large-scale code migrations by generating mergeable pull requests across thousands of repositories.