Managing Machines at Spotify - Spotify EngineeringIntroduction When you log into Spotify, browse through your Discover Weekly playlist, and play a track, you’re interacting with some of our fleet of around 12,000 servers. Spotify has historically opted to run our core infrastructure on our own private fleet of physical servers (aka machines) rather than leveraging a public cloud such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our fleet consists of a minimal s
