One line of Python, and a 3× drop in p99 (opens on the source site)
We removed one log statement from a service’s hot path this week. Its 99th-percentile response latency fell from a steady to , and CPU…
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Soundcloud
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20 of 25 postsLess Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different (opens on the source site)
Last year, SoundCloud upgraded its AAC encoder for the first time in over a decade. The new one (Fraunhofer’s libfdk_aac) delivers higher…
Read at the sourceAPI Credentials from Your Terminal, and OpenAPI on GitHub (opens on the source site)
In May we opened self-service app registration for Artist Pro subscribers. That fixed the browser flow. Two requests kept coming up anyway…
Read at the sourceVibe Coding with SoundCloud: Announcing New Docs for your Agents (opens on the source site)
Have you ever had a brilliant idea for a music app, a custom playlist curator, or a unique way to discover underground tracks on SoundCloud…
Read at the sourceMoving to Modern Streaming: Introducing AAC HLS on SoundCloud APIs [Deadline Extended] (opens on the source site)
At SoundCloud, we’re always looking for ways to improve the listening experience for our creators, partners, and listeners. One of the…
Read at the sourceAction required: Upcoming Update to SoundCloud API id fields (opens on the source site)
To all developers using SoundCloud’s public API — we’re introducing an important change that will affect how you reference resources like…
Read at the sourceNew artist name field on our API (opens on the source site)
A while ago we made an improvement to how track and artist information is displayed on SoundCloud, making it clearer and easier to…
Read at the sourceUpcoming changes to SoundCloud Access Tokens (opens on the source site)
tl;dr: If your app doesn’t store SoundCloud access tokens outside of the context of a user’s client (i.e. a database) the following should…
Read at the sourceMigration to Oauth 2.1 (opens on the source site)
Earlier this year, we updated our API Guide to let developers know that SoundCloud authentication is now operating on the OAuth 2.1 protocol…
Read at the sourceAndroid Large Screen Optimization (opens on the source site)
Large Screen Devices - The New Frontier SoundCloud large screen optimized Recently, the Android team at SoundCloud took on a project to…
Read at the sourceAn update on our API: Changes to access for inactive apps (opens on the source site)
We’re working on improving our API offering. In order to do that, a few changes are coming: We need to revoke access for some of you with…
Read at the sourceWhat I Learned in One Year as an SRE Trainee (opens on the source site)
I recently celebrated my one year anniversary as a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) trainee at SoundCloud. Looking back, I had very little…
Read at the sourceWhat's New with SoundCloud, November 2022 (opens on the source site)
We recently made updates to our SoundCloud iOS and Android apps to address key user experience (UX) fixes according to user feedback. We’ll…
Read at the sourceBar Raiser Interview (opens on the source site)
In an earlier blog post, we talked about how we changed the interview process during remote working as a way of improving our recruiting…
Read at the sourceWhat's New with SoundCloud, October 2022 (opens on the source site)
We recently made updates to our SoundCloud iOS and Android apps to address key user experience (UX) fixes according to user feedback. We’ll…
Read at the sourceAndroid Image Loading at SoundCloud (opens on the source site)
The SoundCloud Android app recently got a significant makeover: a “new year, new me” type of thing. Our remarkable design team and…
Read at the sourceSoundCloud Echo: Next-Level Humane Registry with Backstage (opens on the source site)
We’ve seen considerable adoption of our internal humane registry, Services Directory, since we sanitized ownership definition and introduced…
Read at the sourceWINE Workshop (opens on the source site)
SoundCloud has a variety of resource groups, and one such group is called Women in Engineering, or WINE. The mission statement of the group…
Read at the sourcePR Templates for Effective Pull Requests (opens on the source site)
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…
Read at the sourceLearning Scala at SoundCloud (opens on the source site)
I’m a backend developer who worked extensively writing code in Golang before joining SoundCloud. SoundCloud mostly uses Scala for its…
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