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NerdOut@Spotify

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Background Coding Agents
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NerdOut@Spotify is a technology podcast produced by the nerds at Spotify and made for the nerd inside all of us. Hear from Spotify engineers about challenging tech problems and get a firsthand look into what we're doing, what we're building, and what we’re nerding out about at Spotify every day.

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How do you build a culture of experimentation inside a 100-year-old institution?

This episode is part of our special miniseries on product experimentation where we go beyond A/B testing basics to explore how teams build experimentation culture, move... more

What happens when a seven-person data team restarts an experimentation program from scratch — and gets the whole company running experiments within months?

Welcome to the first episode of our special miniseries on product experimentation. Now that y... more

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What does it take to ship a video-first Spotify experience on the biggest screen in your house?

In this Release Notes episode of the NerdOut@Spotify podcast, you’ll hear about the redesigned Spotify app on Apple TV — why we rebuilt it, what it took ... more

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At Spotify, we're doubling down on background coding agents. The goal is to scale code migrations and boost developer productivity beyond our existing automation system. Built on top of Fleet Management and supercharged by Claude Code, these agents m... more

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Recent Guests

Divya Isaiah
Head of experimentation at the BBC
BBC
Episode: 36: How the BBC Experiments at Scale: Learning Since 1922
Bhav Patel
Huel
Episode: 35: How Huel Experiments at Scale: Beyond A/B Tests
Theodoros Tsouridis
Engineer behind the Apple TV app work
Spotify PPX
Episode: 34: Redesigning our Apple TV App *Release Notes*
Mo Farhat
Group Product Manager at Google Compute Engine
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Episode: 31: ARM-ing Ourselves with Google Axion, Part 1
Chris Aniszczyk
Chief Technology Officer at CNCF
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Episode: 28: The CNCF Turns 10
Kyle Buttner
Product Manager at Spotify focusing on Platform Insights.
Spotify
Episode: 27: Measuring Developer Productivity

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Dave Zolotuski
Principal Engineer at Spotify; host on multiple episodes with focus on backend systems and tooling.

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36: How the BBC Experiments at Scale: Learning Since 1922
Q: What roles exist within the BBC's experimentation center, and how do they interact with product squads?
The center includes analysts, data scientists, and statistics-oriented people who collaborate with trio groups (engineering, design, product) within squads to instrument and evaluate experiments.
36: How the BBC Experiments at Scale: Learning Since 1922
Q: How is BBC's experimentation organized across such a large, legacy organization?
BBC uses a decentralized model with a center of excellence that acts as an in-house consultancy, supporting teams as needed while encouraging autonomy and focusing on audience value and standardized practices.
34: Redesigning our Apple TV App *Release Notes*
Q: What does bootstrapping the app mean in this context?
Bootstrapping means pulling in all dependencies, creating the initial non-authenticated scope, then progressively authenticating the user and loading the necessary services to enable playback and UI rendering.
32: ARM-ing Ourselves with Google Axion, Part 2
Q: What should others consider when doing a migration like this?
Plan for the need of right-sizing and think about how you're going to handle CI and CD with ARM integration.
32: ARM-ing Ourselves with Google Axion, Part 2
Q: So how does this become an actual thing that your org is doing as opposed to let's validate some new technology?
We did the technical due diligence, and then we also went through financial and contractual due diligence with the cloud providers.

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A tech-focused show featuring Spotify engineers tackling challenging problems and sharing hands-on details about building and shipping at scale. Episodes frequently explore AI-assisted coding, infrastructure migrations, and internal knowledge tools, with hosts and guests discussing architecture decisions, tooling, and real-world impact at Spotify. Notable throughlines include AI-driven coding agents, container and chip migrations, and knowledge management platforms, often paired with practical lessons for engineering teams and engineering leadership. The show likely appeals to software engineers, site reliability engineers, and tech leaders who want behind-the-scenes insight into high-scale engineering challenges and innovative tooling in a... more

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