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Like many other tech companies, Spotify is playing the open source card, and even accelerating its efforts in this area. VentureBeat reports that the streaming music giant, which has freely licensed several projects over the years, has just secured two breakthroughs in this area.
Without sharing, “a huge investment” for a less good result
– His Backstage project, open source for two years, was recently accepted as an incubated project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
– Spotify has joined the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), launched by the Linux Foundation in 2020, and it has launched a fund to support independent open source projects, from 100,000 euros to start.
Backstage presents itself as a tool to unify a company’s services, applications, data and documents, as well as the corresponding documentation, in a single interface, in other words “solving the complexity”, according to Tyson Singer, chief technology and platform officer. from Spotify.
Backstage is now used by dozens of companies, says VentureBeat, in retail, gaming, finance, transportation and more, including Netflix, American Airlines, Ikea, Splunk, HP, Expedia…
To justify the choice of open source, Tyson Singer explains to the tech news site that without it, Spotify would have had to make “a huge and difficult to finance investment, for a product that would not be as good as it is. is now”. This pooling has improved the product and made it more robust, he believes.
A team dedicated to open source
For about a decade, the company had an informal group of employees participating part-time in its open source projects; it has now set up a dedicated team, an “open source program office” (OSPO) in charge of objectives, licenses, etc. relative. She recruits as such.
Regarding his membership in the Open Source Security Foundation, Tyson Singer says, “Open source security is a topic that concerns all tech companies, or even those that rely on software. We all depend on the open source ecosystem, so as a technical community we all have a responsibility to improve security where possible.”
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