Scaling the Sound: Fleet Management at Spotify

This conference talk explores Spotify's journey toward a "fleet-first" mindset in managing their massive backend infrastructure that handles billions of requests. Discover how Spotify simplified operations through declarative infrastructure, allowing teams to clearly define desired service states while reducing complexity. Learn about their strategies for implementing large-scale fleet-wide refactoring with minimal disruption, and how they leverage automated pipelines, standardized tooling, and organizational alignment to transform operational challenges into innovation opportunities. Daynesh Mangal from Spotify shares insights on how the company maintains seamless performance across its vast and diverse software fleet to support countless user experiences.