When did Spotify abandon their original peer-to-peer architecture?[0]
[0]http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10.p...
Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud
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Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud
#22This reads like they've been acquired by Google and are integrating. Now Google just has to write the check and own music streaming.
Hmmm...interesting point but Google already has an awful lot of music infrastructure in the form of Google Music and YouTube does it not? Would it really make sense for them to purchase Spotify too?
I've only really looked at Spotify and Tidal, but Spotify is really good. There's more to streaming than content.
Makes me curious about how good Google's recommendation engine is.
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#23When did Spotify abandon their original peer-to-peer architecture?[0] [0] http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10.p...
Quite a while ago. Not sure on the exact time, but judging from this article, I'd guess sometime in 2014 https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-ma...
Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud
#24Now how about Spotify fixing their front end so that Premium customers on Android can just hit "play" to play the album they want to play, in the right order? And how about an app in the Windows Store so that you can use it on a touchscreen? And how about some improved metadata that work for classical music? And a way to report corrupt or mistagged tracks and get them fixed?
/rant
Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud
#25I was wondering about Spotify's contributions to Hadoop stack such as Snakebite and Luigi. What will happen to these projects if they're moving to BigQuery?
Re: Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud
#26I tried Google Container Engine (GKE) and really liked it - it's the best cloud solution for deploying Docker to production in my opinion, mainly due to its use of Kubernetes. Unfortunately in my Web apps I make heavy use of Postgres-specific features, and since Cloud SQL only supports MySQL, Google Cloud is a total non-starter for me. So for now I'm on AWS, using Postgres on RDS and deploying containers with ECS. EC…
I'm tentatively happy with our move to GCE as well, although we need to live with it more. What really delights me is the quality of the web dashboard, command line tool, and the ability to open web based SSH windows with a single click.
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#27When did Spotify abandon their original peer-to-peer architecture?[0] [0] http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10.p...
Quite a while ago. Not sure on the exact time, but judging from this article, I'd guess sometime in 2014 https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-ma...
Seems a great growth hack. Too bad it's not more.
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#28When did Spotify abandon their original peer-to-peer architecture?[0] [0] http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10.p...
Quite a while ago. Not sure on the exact time, but judging from this article, I'd guess sometime in 2014 https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-ma...
I'd be curious if anyone knows the details about why: complexity, customer complaints, reliability?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quite a while ago. Not sure on the exact time, but judging from this article, I'd guess sometime in 2014 https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-ma...
I'd be curious if anyone knows the details about why: complexity, customer complaints, reliability?
Too much complexity for a world that's moving to mobile clients that can't be active peers of the network.
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#30Isn’t it risky to move to competition's infrastructure?