The SoundCloud Android app recently got a significant makeover: a “new year, new me” type of thing. Our remarkable design team and…

We’ve seen considerable adoption of our internal humane registry, Services Directory, since we sanitized ownership definition and introduced…

We’ve seen considerable adoption of our internal humane registry, Services Directory, since we sanitized ownership definition and introduced…

SoundCloud has a variety of resource groups, and one such group is called Women in Engineering, or WINE. The mission statement of the group…

SoundCloud has a variety of resource groups, and one such group is called Women in Engineering, or WINE. The mission statement of the group…

The first step to any code review is understanding what the code does and why. Although the author is by far the most qualified person to…

The first step to any code review is understanding what the code does and why. Although the author is by far the most qualified person to…

I’m a backend developer who worked extensively writing code in Golang before joining SoundCloud. SoundCloud mostly uses Scala for its…

I’m a backend developer who worked extensively writing code in Golang before joining SoundCloud. SoundCloud mostly uses Scala for its…

This is the story of how we used the Strangler pattern to migrate our public API from a monolithic codebase to a fully fledged BFF over the…

This is the story of how we used the Strangler pattern to migrate our public API from a monolithic codebase to a fully fledged BFF over the…

In a previous blog post, we explained how we built an internal pull-based exception monitoring service called Periskop — which is heavily…

In a previous blog post, we explained how we built an internal pull-based exception monitoring service called Periskop — which is heavily…

Imagine yourself as an engineer who just joined SoundCloud. Besides meeting your colleagues and getting your new laptop, badge, and that…

Imagine yourself as an engineer who just joined SoundCloud. Besides meeting your colleagues and getting your new laptop, badge, and that…

This article discusses the powerful design choice of Apache Kafka, “an open-source distributed event streaming platform,” and gives a sneak…

This article discusses the powerful design choice of Apache Kafka, “an open-source distributed event streaming platform,” and gives a sneak…

This article is the last part in a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over…

This article is the last part in a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over…

This article is part of a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over the past…

This article is part of a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over the past…

This article is part of a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over the past…

This article is part of a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over the past…

There’s no single platform team that consists of only web engineers at SoundCloud, even though we consider ourselves to be part of the “Web…

There’s no single platform team that consists of only web engineers at SoundCloud, even though we consider ourselves to be part of the “Web…

As part of our continuous effort toward making improvements to our API with the hope that we can relaunch API access to all developers, we…

As part of our continuous effort toward making improvements to our API with the hope that we can relaunch API access to all developers, we…

SoundCloud was founded 13 years ago, and throughout its history, the company and much of its tech stack has changed. We started with a…

SoundCloud was founded 13 years ago, and throughout its history, the company and much of its tech stack has changed. We started with a…

You can now retrieve metadata for our full SoundCloud catalog through our API by providing the new filter in your request. Until recently…