Continuous delivery makes an agenda for many engineering teams. When there are not that many unknowns in the web world, the embedded software domain is worth exploring. With such diversity of different partner integrations(speakers, consoles, tv’s, cars, etc) Spotify is not an exception. We set ourselves on a journey to reach a state when releases of Spotify’s eSDK is rather a routine and doesn't require anything more than a push of a button. The end goal is clear and sounds easy but challenges are all over the place and every single one needs to be addressed individually. This talk is about how we managed to setup releases of Spotify’s embedded SDK on a predictable schedule and keep improving towards being able releasing on-demand going forward. Our challenges and solutions. What worked, what did not. Pain, tears, joy, and smiles.

1. Continuous Delivery as
you want it!
Andrii
Software Engineer

4. History

5. eSDK in essence
Lightweight C library
play(), seek(), pause(), queue(),
getMetadata() etc…

6. Team structure
Back-end
teams
Embedded “core”
team
Partner integration
team
Partner integration
team
Partner integration
team
Partner integration
team
Partner integration
team
Partner integration
team

7. - production issues are not easily fixable
- no or little collaboration between
integration teams and the “core” team
- releases are set on schedule but not
followed due to internal issues
Challenges

8. Prevent issues
rather than
detecting them

9. Minimum Viable

10. If it hurts - make it faster

11. Move activities upstream

12. Safety net

13. Master is Production

14. Thanks!
andrii@spotify.com

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