--- title: System Design Interview Question: Design Spotify | daily.dev description: This post discusses the system design of Spotify, including the initial base version requirements, estimation of data storage, high-level design, data storage... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-interview-question-design-spotify-qmmvygzg3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: System Design Interview Question: Design Spotify | daily.dev og:description: This post discusses the system design of Spotify, including the initial base version requirements, estimation of data storage, high-level design, data storage... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-interview-question-design-spotify-qmmvygzg3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qmMVyGZG3.png og:image:alt: System Design Interview Question: Design Spotify 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. # System Design Interview Question: Design Spotify **[gitconnected](https://daily.dev/sources/gc)** · 5 min read · 915 upvotes · 32 comments ## Summary This post discusses the system design of Spotify, including the initial base version requirements, estimation of data storage, high-level design, data storage options, SQL database structure, and scaling techniques for a larger user and song base. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@visnusah** · 2 upvotes > very impressive explanation! **@czepimm** · 1 upvotes > Simple and elegant 🤠 **@femil32** · 1 upvotes > Nicely explained ! **@ghost** · 1 upvotes > So beautifully explained! Great! **@asitdhal** · 0 upvotes > Well written, I like how the author describes scalability. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#spotify](https://daily.dev/tags/spotify), [#design-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/design-systems), [#system-design-interview](https://daily.dev/tags/system-design-interview) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/system-design-interview-question-design-spotify-qmmvygzg3) ```json 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