Conf42 Platform Engineering 2025 - Online

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Scale or Fail as Spotify's Growth Exposed the Abstraction Paradox

Abstract

At Spotify, serving 675M users, hyper-growth in 2014 created system fragmentation that made onboarding engineers difficult. Our abstractions oversimplified complexity, hindering incident response. We learned effective abstraction teaches complexity rather than hiding it.

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Stuart Clark

Senior Developer Advocate @ Spotify

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