Spotify正通过周四推出technology.spotify.com这一新站点，正式化其在企业和开发者工具业务方面的努力，该站点将向外部用户开放其内部技术。
Spotify is formalizing efforts around its enterprise and developer tools business with Thursday’s launch of technology.spotify.com, a new site that will make its internal tech available to outsiders.
公司进军这一领域并非全新。正如Spotify在新站点公告中所指出的，自2020年开源Backstage以来，它一直在向更广泛的技术社区提供不同的产品，Backstage是一个用于构建可定制开发者门户的平台和框架。
The company’s foray into this space is not exactly new. As Spotify points out in its announcement of the new site, it’s been offering different products to the wider tech community since 2020 when it open sourced Backstage, a platform and framework for building customizable developer portals.
它还自2023年起开始销售其面向企业的软件实验平台Confidence，以及自2024年起销售其企业软件开发平台Portal。今年早些时候，它开始销售其用于管理AI编码代理的开发者工具Xirp。
It has also been selling its enterprise-focused software experimentation platform Confidence since 2023 and its enterprise software development platform Portal since 2024. Earlier this year, it began selling its developer tool for managing AI coding agents, Xirp.
虽然许多科技公司会构建自己的内部系统来帮助开发者更高效地工作，但像Spotify这样将这些工具卖给其他企业的公司相对较少见。
While many technology companies build their own internal systems to help their developers work more efficiently, it’s somewhat unusual to see a company like Spotify sell those tools to other businesses.
Spotify技术与平台高级副总裁Tyson Singer承认，公司进军这一领域引发了诸多疑问。
Spotify’s SVP of Technology & Platform, Tyson Singer, acknowledged that the company’s move into this space has raised questions.
“我每天都会被问到这个问题的变体：Spotify为什么要做卖软件的生意？”，他在Spotify工程博客的一篇帖子中写道。“事实是，您所熟知和喜爱的Spotify不仅仅是一个出色的流媒体服务。在我们的消费者应用背后，有数百个跨职能小组日复一日地交付产品和代码，”他解释道。
“I get asked a version of this question every day: why is Spotify in the business of selling software?,” he wrote in a post on Spotify’s engineering site. “The truth is, the Spotify you know and love is more than a great streaming service. Behind our consumer app are hundreds of cross-functional squads shipping products and code day in, day out,” he explained.
新的技术网站将托管Spotify为其7.77亿月活跃用户所构建的解决方案，包括开源和付费服务。
The new technology website will house the solutions Spotify has built to serve its own audience of 777 million monthly active users, including both open source and paid services.
虽然人工智能让构建此类软件变得更快，但Spotify指出，这并不一定意味着它更简单——“复杂性、成本和运营范围都会随之增长”，Singer写道。该公司的赌注是，尽管人工智能取得了进步，软件开发团队仍将需要某些核心服务，比如Spotify所提供的服务，而它表示这些服务将具备代理就绪能力。
Though AI has made building such software faster, Spotify points out that this doesn’t necessarily mean it’s simpler — “the complexity, the cost and the operational surface area all grow with it,” Singer wrote. The company’s bet is that, despite AI’s advances, software development teams will still require certain core services, like those Spotify sells, which it says will be agent-ready.
目前尚不清楚Spotify的企业销售正在产生多少收入，因为该公司尚未在其财务报告中披露这些数据。随着Spotify加大对企业市场的推进力度，这一情况可能会发生变化，将曾经的副业转变为更正式的运营。
So far, it’s unclear how much revenue Spotify’s enterprise sales are generating, as the company hasn’t disclosed those figures in its financial reporting. That could potentially change as Spotify makes a more concerted push into the enterprise market, turning what was once a side business into a more formal operation.
该技术网站未包含定价信息；相反，企业可以填写表格联系销售团队，讨论其需求。
The technology website doesn’t include pricing; instead, companies can fill out a form to contact sales and discuss their needs.