--- title: Design Spotify Like a Senior Engineer (System Design... description: A comprehensive walkthrough of designing a music streaming platform like Spotify, covering requirements gathering, capacity planning, high-level architecture,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/design-spotify-like-a-senior-engineer-system-design-interview--9mza9y195 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Design Spotify Like a Senior Engineer (System Design Interview) | daily.dev og:description: A comprehensive walkthrough of designing a music streaming platform like Spotify, covering requirements gathering, capacity planning, high-level architecture,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/design-spotify-like-a-senior-engineer-system-design-interview--9mza9y195 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9MZa9Y195.png og:image:alt: Design Spotify Like a Senior Engineer (System Design Interview) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Design Spotify Like a Senior Engineer (System Design Interview) **[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 27 min read · 28 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comprehensive walkthrough of designing a music streaming platform like Spotify, covering requirements gathering, capacity planning, high-level architecture, API design, database schema, and scalability strategies. The guide demonstrates how to handle 500,000 users and 30 million songs initially, then scale to 50 million users and 200 million songs using techniques like CDN distribution, database sharding, read replicas, and regional blob storage. Emphasizes the importance of planning and architecture over immediate coding, highlighting the skill progression from mid-level to senior engineering roles. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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