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"01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c35f7cf349", "title": "Leveraging frameworks to speed up our development on iOS - Part 1", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//leveraging-frameworks-to-speed-up-our-development-on-ios-part-1", "published_at": "2017-10-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c35f80724e", "title": "SoundCloud's Data Science Process", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//soundclouds-data-science-process", "published_at": "2017-10-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c3605b1792", "title": "Deliver software faster by managing work in progress, not by adding overtime", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//deliver-software-faster-by-managing-work-in-progress-not-by-adding-overtime", "published_at": "2017-09-27T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c360dd28d0", "title": "Inside a SoundCloud Microservice", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//inside-a-soundcloud-microservice", "published_at": "2017-07-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c361ac4698", "title": "Remote device sign-in", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//remote-device-sign-in", "published_at": "2017-06-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c362450145", "title": "A Better Model of Data Ownership", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//a-better-model-of-data-ownership", "published_at": "2017-06-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c362ace604", "title": "Lessons in resilience at SoundCloud", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//lessons-in-resilience-at-SoundCloud", "published_at": "2016-12-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c363a7ecd6", "title": "API Sign-up Changes", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//api-sign-up-changes", "published_at": "2016-09-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c364a6f141", "title": "Microservices and the monolith", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//microservices-and-the-monolith", "published_at": "2016-08-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c36561ee38", "title": "React Native at SoundCloud", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//react-native-at-soundcloud", "published_at": "2016-08-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c36609fc7c", "title": "Removal of Groups endpoints", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//removal-of-groups-endpoints", "published_at": "2016-08-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c3668da7ee", "title": "Synchronous communication for microservices: current status and learnings", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//synchronous-communication-for-microservices-current-status-and-learnings", "published_at": "2016-07-27T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c36714adee", "title": "Prometheus has come of age – a reflection on the development of an open-source project", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//prometheus-has-come-of-age-a-reflection-on-the-development-of-an-open-source-project", "published_at": "2016-07-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c3680ffaac", "title": "Building radio stations at SoundCloud", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//building_radio_stations_at_soundcloud", "published_at": "2016-07-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c368422d87", "title": "Can a machine surprise you? We believe so.", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//introducing_suggested_tracks", "published_at": "2016-06-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c36863fb6f", "title": "Data pipelines with Apache Crunch and Java 8", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//data-pipelines-apache-crunch-java-8", "published_at": "2016-06-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08216-2e03-7278-97ca-c4c3686d337b", "title": "Playlist search returns only compact representations as of July 15, 2016", "url": "https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//compact-playlist-search", "published_at": "2016-05-13T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

One line of Python, and a 3× drop in p99 original ↗

11 Aug 2026

Less Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different original ↗

18 Jun 2026

API Credentials from Your Terminal, and OpenAPI on GitHub original ↗

16 Jun 2026

Vibe Coding with SoundCloud: Announcing New Docs for your Agents original ↗

18 May 2026

2025

Moving to Modern Streaming: Introducing AAC HLS on SoundCloud APIs [Deadline Extended]original ↗

15 Sept 2025

Action required: Upcoming Update to SoundCloud API id fields original ↗

29 Apr 2025

New artist name field on our API original ↗

3 Apr 2025

2024

Upcoming changes to SoundCloud Access Tokens original ↗

2 Dec 2024

Migration to Oauth 2.1 original ↗

23 Apr 2024

2023

Android Large Screen Optimization original ↗

31 Jul 2023

An update on our API: Changes to access for inactive apps original ↗

2 Jun 2023

What I Learned in One Year as an SRE Trainee original ↗

6 Jan 2023

2022

What's New with SoundCloud, November 2022 original ↗

11 Nov 2022

Bar Raiser Interview original ↗

25 Oct 2022

What's New with SoundCloud, October 2022 original ↗

17 Oct 2022

Android Image Loading at SoundCloud original ↗

13 Oct 2022

SoundCloud Echo: Next-Level Humane Registry with Backstage original ↗

19 Sept 2022

WINE Workshop original ↗

2 Aug 2022

PR Templates for Effective Pull Requests original ↗

12 Jul 2022

Learning Scala at SoundCloud original ↗

19 Apr 2022

The End of the Public API Strangler original ↗

14 Mar 2022

What Is New with Periskop in 2022 original ↗

1 Feb 2022

Obvious Ownership: A Sensible Humane Registry original ↗

6 Jan 2022

2021

Tiny Letter from Kafka original ↗

13 Oct 2021

Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 3: Domain Gateways original ↗

17 Sept 2021

Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 2: Value-Added Services original ↗

20 Aug 2021

Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 1: Backends for Frontends original ↗

29 Jul 2021

How We Share Knowledge as a Web Collective original ↗

14 Jul 2021

Upcoming API Security Updates — Action Required original ↗

1 Jul 2021

Did I Break You? Reverse Dependency Verification original ↗

25 May 2021

High-Tier Content in the SoundCloud API original ↗

6 May 2021

The Journey of Corpus original ↗

29 Apr 2021

How to Successfully Hand Over Systems original ↗

20 Apr 2021

SoundCloud’s New API Track Object original ↗

16 Mar 2021

Building a Healthy On-Call Culture original ↗

11 Mar 2021

Dependency Inversion as a Driver to Scale Mobile Development original ↗

24 Feb 2021

Tests Under the Magnifying Lens original ↗

2 Feb 2021

2020

Leveraging a Manager Weekly Newsletter for Team Communication original ↗

25 Nov 2020

Testing SQL for BigQuery original ↗

16 Oct 2020

Pagination Updates on Our API original ↗

21 Sept 2020

Breaking Loose from Third-Party Lock-In with Custom Refactoring Tools original ↗

11 Aug 2020

DeveloperBridge: SoundCloud’s Program for Training People from Diverse Backgrounds to Become Engineers original ↗

17 Jul 2020

Changing the Interview Process during Remote Working original ↗

30 Jun 2020

Technical Interview Reform, Part 2: The Recruiting Perspective and Results original ↗

26 Jun 2020

Technical Interview Reform, Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge original ↗

25 Jun 2020

Announcing Twinagle: Twirp and Protobuf for Finagle original ↗

12 Jun 2020

Stretch Opportunities for Engineers original ↗

20 May 2020

Open Sourcing Intervene original ↗

5 May 2020

Periskop: Exception Monitoring Service original ↗

16 Mar 2020

How (Not) to Build Datasets and Consume Data at Your Company original ↗

3 Mar 2020

The Magic of Generating an Xcode Project original ↗

20 Feb 2020

A Happy New Employee original ↗

7 Feb 2020

Speeding Up Builds with Dagger Reflect original ↗

30 Jan 2020

The Power of Types for Errors original ↗

20 Jan 2020

2019

Implementing Dark Mode Using the Observer Pattern original ↗

8 Nov 2019

Solving Remote Build Cache Misses by Annoying Your Colleagues original ↗

1 Oct 2019

Gradle Remote Build Cache Misses original ↗

30 Aug 2019

SoundCloud Is Playing the Oboe original ↗

21 Jun 2019

Alerting on SLOs like Pros original ↗

4 Jun 2019

Playback on Web at SoundCloud original ↗

3 May 2019

Taking Our Bug Bounty Program Public original ↗

18 Apr 2019

Release Quality and Mobile Trains original ↗

3 Apr 2019

How to Reindex One Billion Documents in One Hour at SoundCloud original ↗

21 Mar 2019

Off-Platform Validation original ↗

6 Mar 2019

Radical Candor: An Experience Report original ↗

15 Feb 2019

Garbage Collection in Redux Applications original ↗

24 Jan 2019

2018

A Pragmatic Approach to Tech Debt Reduction original ↗

23 Nov 2018

Integration Testing for Memory Leaks original ↗

23 Nov 2018

How We Develop New Features Using Offsites and Clean Architecture original ↗

2 Nov 2018

Using Kubernetes Pod Metadata to Improve Zipkin Traces original ↗

19 Sept 2018

Hands-Off Deployment with Canary original ↗

29 Aug 2018

Creating Readable Spark Jobs original ↗

6 Aug 2018

Getting a Team Back on Track original ↗

25 Jul 2018

Defining a Role with a Retrospective Activity original ↗

22 Jun 2018

Project Necromancy original ↗

5 Jun 2018

Engineering Levels at SoundCloud original ↗

24 May 2018

Keeping Counts In Sync original ↗

11 May 2018

Running Android UI Test Suites on Firebase Test Lab original ↗

4 May 2018

Managing Unplanned and Support Tasks original ↗

26 Mar 2018

Automatic Stubbing of Network Requests to Deflakify Automation Testing original ↗

26 Jan 2018

PageRank in Spark original ↗

24 Jan 2018

Insights from SoundCloud’s DeveloperBridge Trainee Program original ↗

18 Jan 2018

2017

How SoundCloud Uses HAProxy with Kubernetes for User-Facing Traffic original ↗

7 Dec 2017

Leveraging frameworks to speed up our development on iOS - Part 1 original ↗

16 Oct 2017

SoundCloud's Data Science Process original ↗

4 Oct 2017

Deliver software faster by managing work in progress, not by adding overtime original ↗

27 Sept 2017

Inside a SoundCloud Microservice original ↗

28 Jul 2017

Remote device sign-in original ↗

28 Jun 2017

A Better Model of Data Ownership original ↗

20 Jun 2017

2016

Lessons in resilience at SoundCloud original ↗

7 Dec 2016

API Sign-up Changes original ↗

23 Sept 2016

Microservices and the monolith original ↗

26 Aug 2016

React Native at SoundCloud original ↗

3 Aug 2016

Removal of Groups endpoints original ↗

1 Aug 2016

Synchronous communication for microservices: current status and learnings original ↗

27 Jul 2016

Prometheus has come of age – a reflection on the development of an open-source project original ↗

19 Jul 2016

Building radio stations at SoundCloud original ↗

5 Jul 2016

Can a machine surprise you? We believe so.original ↗

21 Jun 2016

Data pipelines with Apache Crunch and Java 8 original ↗

1 Jun 2016

Playlist search returns only compact representations as of July 15, 2016 original ↗

13 May 2016