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 analysis on our software and social dependencies and measure how this class of architectures works at scale and speculate on how to scale them further.
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....