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SoundCloud Engineering

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SoundCloud Engineering

@SoundCloudDev

Everything related to SoundCloud Development and the API. Need API key? developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/regis…

Berlin/LA/London/New York

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SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Nov 25, 2025
Are you writing custom SoundCloud players for your website? What is missing in our widget? Help us building a better widget!
What would you wish for for our widget? · soundcloud api · Discussion #482
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SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Jan 24, 2019
JavaScript takes care of garbage collection in most scenarios. 🗑 But when we built an Xbox 🎮 app on top of React & Redux, we found it wasn’t enough. ⚛ In a new blog post by @thedeftone, learn why and how we implemented an additional garbage collector.
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Garbage Collection in Redux Applications
This post describes why and how we implemented a garbage collector in our Xbox application on top of Redux and in addition to the JavaScript engine’s regular garbage collector.
SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Aug 3, 2016
We use React Native at SoundCloud now and we 💖 it! @thedeftone and @pietropizzi tell you why:
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React Native at SoundCloud
About a year ago we faced an interesting question at SoundCloud: can we build SoundCloud Pulse — our app for creators — with React Native? Is a five-month-old technology mature enough to become part...
SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Nov 8, 2019
After the much anticipated arrival of Dark Mode in iOS 13, we knew we wanted to support it in the SoundCloud for iOS app. 🏴💣🎧 In a new post by @matiasverdee, we share how we leveraged the observer pattern in Swift to implement color themes. 🖤 🌑
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Implementing Dark Mode Using the Observer Pattern
Last week’s update to the SoundCloud iOS app includes support for Dark Mode. This took several months of work and collaboration between design and engineering teams across the company, so we wanted...
SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Mar 17, 2016
Gearing up for a fourth Rails Girls Summer of Code @soundcloud Read how we do it! medium.com/@SoundCloud/mo… @RailsGirlsSoC
More women coding this summer with Rails Girls
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SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Jan 26, 2015
Prometheus: Monitoring at SoundCloud
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Prometheus: Monitoring at SoundCloud
In previous blog posts, we discussed how SoundCloud has been moving towards a microservice architecture. Soon we had hundreds of services, with many thousand instances running and changing at the...
SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Jun 4, 2019
Alerting based on service-level objectives is a big part of SRE. ⚠️📟 In a new blog post by Björn Rabenstein, learn how we implemented this practice at SoundCloud using @PrometheusIO, @HAProxy, and the @srebook. 🖥️
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Alerting on SLOs like Pros
If there is anything like a silver bullet for creating meaningful and actionable alerts with a high signal-to-noise ratio, it is alerting based on service-level objectives (SLOs). Fulfilling a...
SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Mar 10, 2015
SoundCloud hosted three @RailsGirlsSoC graduates as winter interns, who built an amazing app with our API: blog.soundcloud.com/2015/03/09/cel….
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SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Dec 8, 2016
Read "Lessons in resilience at SoundCloud" by @argha7c - more learnings on microservices with Finagle
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Lessons in resilience at SoundCloud
Building and operating services distributed across a network is hard. Failures are inevitable. The way forward is having resiliency as a key part of design decisions. This post talks about two key...
SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Feb 23, 2016
Today we introduced SoundCloud Pulse, our creator app, to iPhone. We built it w/ React Native. #reactconf
SoundCloud Newsroom
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SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Jan 25, 2018
Check out our latest open-source project, PageRank in Spark, by @joshdevins! soundcloud.github.io/spark-pagerank 👨‍💻 💥 Here's the low-down on how it was implemented, how it's used to power search on @SoundCloud, and how to get involved: developers.soundcloud.com/blog/pagerank-…
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PageRank in Spark
SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Apr 1, 2016
Announcing server hosting at devops scale with Kubernetes for $9.99 a month! soundcloud.com/go
DigitalOcean
@digitalocean
Apr 1, 2016
Announcing CloudSound - Bringing the Music of Servers Back Into Your Life do.co/cloudsound
SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
May 7, 2019
📣 Thanks to the media session api landing in @ChromiumDev 74, you can now use the ⏯⏮⏭ keys on your keyboard and touchbar to control playback on SoundCloud 🔊 Hopefully @firefox support is coming soon!
SoundCloud Engineering
@SoundCloudDev
Feb 24, 2021
Building healthy architecture is a challenge, especially for fast-growing codebases. 🏗 🔨 In a new blog post by @firatov, read how we scale our iOS codebase gracefully using dependency inversion. ⚖️
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Dependency Inversion as a Driver to Scale Mobile Development
As our codebase scales, the need for cleaner architecture becomes more apparent. The dependency inversion principle (DIP) is one tool that helps us build cleaner relationships among our software...