{"id":20771,"date":"2016-02-24T21:06:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T21:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=245571"},"modified":"2016-02-24T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T21:06:33","slug":"spotify-shifts-all-music-from-data-centres-to-google-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/spotify-shifts-all-music-from-data-centres-to-google-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify shifts all music from data centres to Google Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/Spotify_Icon_RGB_Green.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-245611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/Spotify_Icon_RGB_Green-300x300.png\" alt=\"Spotify_Icon_RGB_Green\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Music streaming service Spotify has announced that it is to switch formats for storing tunes for customers and is copying all the music from its data centres onto the Google\u2019s Cloud Platform.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog written by Spotify\u2019s VP of Engineering &amp; Infrastructure, Nicholas Harteau explained that though the company\u2019s data centres had served it well, the cloud is now sufficiently mature to surpass the level of quality, performance and cost Spotify got from owning its infrastructure. Spotify will now get its platform infrastructure from Google Cloud Platform \u2018everywhere\u2019, Harteau revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a big deal,\u201d he said. Though Spotify has taken a traditional approach to delivering its music streams, it no longer feels it needs to buy or lease data-centre space, server hardware and networking gear to guarantee being as close to its customers as possible, according to Harteau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike good engineers, we asked ourselves: do we really need to do all this stuff? For a long time the answer was yes. Recently that balance has shifted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Operating data centres was a painful necessity for Spotify since it began in 2008 because it was the only way to guarantee the quality, performance and cost for its cloud. However, these days the storage, computing and network services available from cloud providers are as high quality, high performance and low cost as anything Spotify could create from the traditional ownership model, said Harteau.<\/p>\n<p>Harteau explained why Spotify preferred Google\u2019s cloud service to that of runaway market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). The decision was shaped by Spotify\u2019s experience with Google\u2019s data platform and tools. \u201cGood infrastructure isn\u2019t just about keeping things up and running, it\u2019s about making all of our teams more efficient and more effective, and Google\u2019s data stack does that for us in spades,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Harteau cited the Dataproc\u2019s batch processing, event delivery with Pub\/Sub and the \u2018nearly magical\u2019 capacity of BigQuery as the three most persuasive features of Google\u2019s cloud service offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music streaming service Spotify has announced that it is to switch formats for storing tunes for customers and is copying all the music from its data centres onto the Google&rsquo;s Cloud Platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2432,1992,344,3997,2142,1976,2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-applications","category-datacentre","category-google","category-music","category-networks","category-news-analysis","category-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20772,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20771\/revisions\/20772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}