How Spotify optimizes iOS performance

The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size

A quick dive into why app size matters, how it affects users, and tricks to keep it lean.

Load Testing for 2022 Spotify Wrapped

Each year, when Wrapped goes live, the Spotify team is faced with a “thundering herd problem”. Millions of people, all over the world and across all time zones, start watching their data stories on-platform

Introducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%

Spotify’s ‘XCRemoteCache’ uses remote caching to slash iOS clean build times by 70%.

How We Built It: Spotify Lite, One Year Later

Spotify looks back at building a lightweight app that still rocks, one year after launch.

Leveraging Mobile Infrastructure with Data-Driven Decisions

Spotify uses hard data to tweak their mobile setup and keep users happy.

Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices

Spotify overhauled their app’s client-side setup to speed up tunes on every device out there.

How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI

Spotify juiced up their macOS CI, cutting iOS pre-merge checks by 75% with slick upgrades.

Shaving off 50% Waiting Time from the iOS Edit-Build-Test Cycle

Spotify slashed iOS dev cycle time by half, keeping their coders in the groove.