DebianDay/Talk7
From DebConf7
Don't reinvent the wheel: using Debian as a deployment infrastructure
Andreas Ehn, CTO Spotify AB
Andreas Schuldei, Spotify AB, Debian Developer
A new start-up in Sweden is basing its operations on Debian. This talk shares background, experiences, tricks and lessons learned.
About the speaker
Andreas Ehn is the Chief Technology Officer of Spotify, a Luxembourg- and Stockholm-based startup that aims to reshape the way you listen to music. Spotify employs a team of world-class engineers creating new peer-to-peer-based streaming protocols and storage, recommendation and advertising systems, all running on the Debian GNU/Linux platform. Before Spotify Andreas worked for Stardoll, a Stockholm-based online community startup, and BEA Systems, a San Jose, California-based enterprise software company. Andreas studied computer science at the Royal Institute of Technology.
