--- title: How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood... description: Spotify built a custom Release Manager Dashboard in Backstage to centralize their mobile app release process. The dashboard aggregates data from 10+ systems... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-release-the-spotify-app-a-look-under-the-hood-part-2--gpawefpba twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2) | daily.dev og:description: Spotify built a custom Release Manager Dashboard in Backstage to centralize their mobile app release process. The dashboard aggregates data from 10+ systems... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-release-the-spotify-app-a-look-under-the-hood-part-2--gpawefpba og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gPAWeFPba.png og:image:alt: How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2) 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. # How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2) **[Spotify Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/spotify)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Spotify built a custom Release Manager Dashboard in Backstage to centralize their mobile app release process. The dashboard aggregates data from 10+ systems into a single view, showing release states, blocking bugs, quality metrics, and sign-off status across Android, iOS, and Desktop platforms. They optimized backend performance through caching, reducing load times from minutes to 8 seconds. Analysis of time-series data revealed testing and App Store approval as major bottlenecks, leading them to build an automated 'Robot' that advances releases through states when conditions are met, cutting the average release cycle by 8 hours. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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