Craft 2023 - Niklas Gustavsson
Niklas Gustavsson
Chief Architect at Spotify
About Niklas Gustavsson

Niklas Gustavsson is the Chief Architect at Spotify, hiker and father of two awesome teenagers. At Spotify, he focuses on holistic architecture, technology innovation and engineering practices, and with a strong interest towards making architecture more data-driven.

Talk
A data-driven study of a large-scale micro component architecture
Topics:
Software Delivery Craft Matters
Level: General
In schedule:
CraftHub Main Stage
May 18, 16:55 - 17:40 CET

What does a large-scale micro component architecture look like in practice? In this talk we take a data-driven deep dive into Spotify’s 15 year old architecture. What patterns emerge across thousands of components (client features, services, data pipelines and websites) and their dependencies? By thorough instrumentation we collect data on what our architecture looks like in practice and can apply...