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Advocacy at Spotify for Developers - Interview with Serah Njambi Kiburu and Alvaro Navarro

56 min • 14 februari 2023

Spotify Senior Developer Advocates Serah Njambi Kiburu and Alvaro Navarro talked with us about the two enemies of developer empathy, and their practices to optimise and scale for the community’s real needs. We also asked why Spotify even needs an API developer portal, and why isn’t it built on backstage? (spoiler alert) They have good reasons for that.

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