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In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected to have about 1,500 attendees from a dozen different cities — seven separate tracks running for three days jam-packed with talks and, of course, social events, similar to the year before. The event was organized by 16 engineers from different parts of Spotify with added support f
As we prepare to launch , we remind ourselves of the challenges we took on and lessons learned to make this year’s experience even better for audio fans, like you, around the world.
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you could somehow see these musical connections as they were happening and connecting us with people we’ve never met, miles apart.
Like many of those in tech, we invest heavily in our cloud and data infrastructure. While seemingly routine, the ability to manage and scale our infrastructure to support our 299+ million listeners worldwide, 24/7, without missing a beat (or syllable) is crucial for the business and our brand.
Stripe’s approach to creating a 1:40 million-scale, interactive 3D model of the earth.
Check out our nineteenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
Hardware fails, networks partition, and humans break things. The job of our infrastructure engineers is to abstract these realities away and provide a reliable, stable production environment nonetheless. Two of the technologies we deploy in this pursuit are Twine, our internal container orchestrator, and Apache ZooKeeper. Twine maintains service availability by managing services in containers
Vue Router is the official router for Vue that is mostly used for creating multiple pages living on different routes (`/home`, `/profile`) in your application but has some features that some people do not know about. In this tutorial, Timi Omoyeni is going to show you some amazing features the Vue Router has and how we can make use of them in our app. You can find all the code used in this article
New month, new wallpapers! In this post, Cosima Mielke brings you wallpaper designs for September 2020, created with love by the design community for the community. All of them are available in versions with and without a calendar and can be downloaded for free. A big thank-you to everyone who shared their artworks with us — we sincerely appreciate it!
Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet.
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers now supports asynchronous handlers, allowing developers to prefetch assets or user-specific content from a remote service.
“Why is it slow?” is the hardest problem to debug in a complex distributed system like Slack. To diagnose a slow-loading channel with over a hundred thousand users, we’d need to look at client-side metrics, server-side metrics, and logs. It could be a client-side issue: a slow network connection or hardware. On the other hand,…
In this article, Precious Ndubueze will be taking an in-depth look at what Django brings to the table by understanding what the generated files and folder do, this will give us a better understanding of the Django framework. It’s important to know that it will not be possible to take a look at everything happening inside of Django. For cases outside the scope of this tutorial, there will be links
Argo Tunnel provides remote access to development environments by creating secure outbound-only connections to Cloudflare’s edge network from a resource exposing it to the Internet. That model helps protect servers and resources from being vulnerable to attack by an exposed IP address.
Covid-19 phishing attack exploits need for face masks, thermometers to launch Agent Tesla malware (advanced Remote Access Trojan); bypasses gateways, DMARC.
As a web developer, there is an interesting bit of back and forth that always comes along with setting up a new application. Even using a full stack web
The best way to learn is to build. Let’s learn about this hot new buzzword, Jamstack, by building a site with React, Netlify (Serverless) Functions, and
Shawn Wang thinks there are deeper, perhaps more uncomfortable, places to go with developer experience (DX) beyond the surface-level stuff that we recently
A behind-the-scenes look at Figma’s enterprise product team
Integrating static analysis security testing into the developer workflow is hard. We discuss the challenges and how to overcome them
Aimed at developers, in this series we introduce and explore the memory unsafe attack surface of interpreted languages.
In this post, I’ll show how you can create Type 2 dimensional models using modern ETL tooling like PySpark and dbt (data build tool).
