Spotify automated the migration of 1,800+ data pipeline consumers using their background coding agent "Honk," saving 10 engineering weeks of manual effort.
- •Used Backstage's lineage and Fleet Management plugins to identify and orchestrate migrations across BigQuery Runner, dbt, and Scio frameworks
- •Context engineering proved critical—standardized frameworks benefited from detailed mapping tables while variable Scio pipelines required different approaches
- •Successfully deployed 240 automated migration PRs, with team reviews enabling quality control
- •Identified future needs: build-time unit testing, data landscape standardization, and agent-driven context gathering from documentation
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