How Spotify Migrated to Google Cloud Without Breaking Discovery Weekly
The CTO Podcast with Fexingo · 2026-06-04 · 9 min
Episode notes
In 2016, Spotify announced it was moving its entire infrastructure from its own data centers to Google Cloud Platform. The migration took four years and involved moving over 1,200 services, petabytes of data, and the machine learning pipelines powering Discover Weekly - all while keeping the music streaming without audible interruption. Lucas and Luna break down how Spotify's engineering team pulled off one of the largest cloud migrations in tech history, the architectural decisions that made it possible, and the lessons for any organization facing a big infrastructure move. Featuring the surprising role of a custom tool called 'Sisyphus' and why Spotify chose to keep its own storage layer running on top of Google's network. #Spotify #GoogleCloud #CloudMigration #Infrastructure #MusicStreaming #DiscoverWeekly #MLPipelines #Sisyphus #DataCenters #Engineering #Architecture #Scalability #Business #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TechLeadership #CTO Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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