Data Engineering: How Spotify Upgraded its Data Platform

Spotify has an impressive infrastructure for handling its massive user base and streaming service, with 406 million active users and 180 million paying subscribers. The company uses machine learning (ML) projects to analyze user interaction data and system data, including listening history, likes, and page load times. To handle the scale of this data, Spotify has upgraded its Event Delivery Infrastructure (EDI) twice in the last six years, moving from an on-premises system to Google's Cloud Platform (GCP). The company also built a new data processing engine called Scio and switched to a more powerful data orchestration platform, Flyte. Spotify continues to innovate and improve its infrastructure to maintain its position as the dominant music streaming service.