And we did it, I think, a little bit differently than a lot of companies that you see. That was a really intentional approach that we took a number of years ago to get ourselves out of the commodity job, and all of the attention that it was taking from our organization, to focus on higher-level things. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.Ī few years ago, Spotify made a pretty substantial migration to Google Cloud. In a recent interview with Protocol, Singer discussed the company's decision to marry its fortunes to Google Cloud, the pros and cons of using managed services and why "ML ops" is the next big thing on his radar.
Backstage is available as an open-source project through the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
The 2,000-plus developers and tech professionals at Spotify also have a secret weapon called Backstage, an internally-developed management console that allows developers to use the dozens of tools in Spotify's arsenal through a consistent user interface. Ever since then, the music and podcast service has doubled down on Google's infrastructure, building around higher-level services that trade convenience and ease of use for effortless portability.Īnd that's just fine with Tyson Singer, vice president of technology and platforms at Spotify, who oversees the technical infrastructure that serves Spotify's 356 million monthly active users. Count Spotify among the businesses that are quite happy to be tied down to a single cloud provider.Īrguably one of Google Cloud's highest-profile customers, Spotify began a migration to Google five years ago when Google's long-term commitment to cloud computing was something of a question.
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