Smoother Streaming with BBR - Spotify EngineeringAugust 31, 2018 Published by Erik Carlsson, Eirini Kakogianni We flipped one server flag and got more download bandwidth for Spotify users. That is the TL;DR of this A/B experiment with BBR, a new TCP option. Background BBR is a TCP congestion control algorithm developed by Google. It aims to make Internet data transfers faster, which is no small feat! How Spotify Streams Music The basic principle
