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How Spotify Built Honk: From Backstage to Agentic Coding at Scale

Meet Honk — our autonomous background coding agent that’s making headlines and transforming how our engineers ship code. Now when our developers want to build a new feature, they can just Honk for it. Powered by Claude Code, Honk’s story begins with Spotify’s internal development platforms. Watch the webinar to learn how Backstage and Fleet Management provide the foundation for our new, orange-billed AI agent’s superpowers.

Featuring

  • Stefan Särne

    Stefan Särne

    Developer Experience, Spotify

  • Max Charas

    Max Charas

    Core Infrastructure, Spotify

About this webinar

Foundations for an Agentic Transformation

When Gustav mentioned Honk on Spotify’s most recent earnings call, it signaled more than an AI milestone — it reflected a long-term, strategic bet on our development platforms. In this webinar, senior staff engineers Stefan Särne and Max Charas walk through how Spotify’s investment in Backstage created the structured, governable environment that makes agentic-first coding and complex, large-scale AI automations not just possible, but routine. From Backstage to Fleet Management to Honk, see the full progression — and what it means for your own development platform.

“You may be wondering if we can keep up this pace in shipping. In fact, we think we not only can, but we think we can increase it. We’ve been embracing and investing in this technology evolution for some time, and it’s allowing us to move with much higher speed. As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify, on their morning commute, from Slack on their cell phone, can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app, and once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office. We call this system internally Honk.”
Gustav Söderström, Co-CEO of Spotify

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How a dev portal originally built for humans now enables AI at scale

Understand how our Backstage Software Catalog — which tracks ownership, dependencies, and other component metadata across thousands of repositories — gives AI agents the structured context they need to navigate your ecosystem on their own.

02

Standardization to complex automations in just 3 steps: Backstage → Fleet Management → Honk

See how Spotify evolved from golden paths, to deterministic code transformations, to background coding agents capable of building new features in one shot — or executing complex fleet-wide migrations.

03

Making non-deterministic coding agents predictable

Learn how Honk’s verification loop wraps every coding task in a harness of linting, compiling, and testing — feeding errors back to the agent to self-correct within a set number of iterations — so that even across a thousand repos, every change lands with a green build and passing tests.
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