Jon Åslund@jooon

Backend

Who am I?

Jon Åslund

@jooon

Computer Science

Summer 2006

Build an awesome music service

Take over the world

Spotify Box

Spotify Box – Jordi Parra @zenona

Summer 2006

Requirements

Simple

Fast<200ms

Always working

How do you accomplish that?

Cheatas much as possible

Fastvs

Feels fast

Always workingvs

Pretend there is nothing wrong

Windows client?

We were unix people

Ludvig Strigeus(uTorrent)

Back to the Backend

Mostly in Python

Why Python?

Getting the right tool for the job

Unix philosophy

do one thing

do it well

work together

handle text

~20 core services

twisted

gevent

What about the arrows?

http/xml

zeromq/protobuf

Storage?

postgresql

cassandra

Develop & Deploy

git

teamcity

debian

puppet

Build more bubbles

decouple until it hurts

have good arrows

Thank you

@jooon