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Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a technical community […]
Engineering the Future: The Context Engineer CertificationAs organizations race to...
IntroductionApache Spark 4.2 moves more of the modern data and AI stack into the...
On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and […]
AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builders’ Library. To mark the anniversary, Rick Suttles published a full feature timeline covering […]
In a perfect world, ML Features are built only once. But for many teams, a feature...
At Databricks, the way we build software is changing quickly as we aggressively adopt...
A recap of the top announcements from AWS's New York Summit 2026
Amazon Bedrock's new Fully Managed Knowledge Bases simplifies building enterprise RAG pipelines by providing native data connectors Smart Parsing for automatic multi-format data preparation, and an Agentic Retriever for complex multi-step queries—all integrated with AgentCore Gateway so developers can focus on business outcomes rather than infrastructure management.
AWS DevOps Agent now offers release management capability in preview, reviewing code changes for release readiness and running autonomous release testing to help you ship code to production safely and with confidence.
Today, more people than ever want to learn data and AI so we're expanding what they...
IntroductionEvery company has a brand identity that reflects what it stands for,...
Genie Code helps data and ML teams build and improve systems faster on Databricks. Over the past year...
There’s never been a more dynamic, exciting time to be building your own AI models...
Marketing technology has seen plenty of change over the past few decades. But what...
Vibe coding needs context and control to work in the enterpriseThe rise of coding agents has been hard to miss...
When Databricks pioneered Delta Sharing in 2021, we set out to solve a problem that...
Data intelligence is reshaping how organizations turn data into outcomes. Teams no...
OpenSharing makes it simple to share live data across organizations — but when provider...
The agentic era is here. Hundreds of thousands of agents are now acting on enterprise...
Last year at the Data + AI Summit, we launched Agent Bricks, ushering in a new way...
Today we are launching a major update to the Databricks Startup Program: qualifying...
All analytics, AI, and applications start with data. Over the past few decades, data...
Today, we're introducing Lakebase Search: hybrid vector and full-text retrieval built...
AWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that enables content providers and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. AWS WAF now lets you set a price for that access, accept payment through third-party providers, and grant scoped access directly at the edge.
This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to see them go live this week. I just won’t be […]
The Snowflake and AWS Custom Well-Architected Framework Lens brings together AWS Well-Architected best practices and Snowflake guidance into a single review experience, with integrated recommendations that reflect how the two services compose in production. In this post, we walk through each pillar, the three access points (AWS Management Console, Kiro, and Snowflake Cortex Code), and how to run your first…
AWS launches Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. AWS Graviton5 is most powerful, and most energy efficient processor AWS has ever built, and offers up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based instances.
Databricks and Anthropic share a conviction: the most powerful AI is the AI that...
The 2026 Databricks Customer Awards recognize organizations and leaders who are using...
Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication that automatically synchronizes user data, credentials, and pool configurations to a secondary AWS Region, enabling uninterrupted authentication during regional failovers without forced password resets—plus new support for customer managed KMS keys for encryption control.
We’re excited to welcome four outstanding community leaders as our newest AWS Heroes. These individuals embody the spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing that makes the AWS community thrive. From building AI-powered tools that help fellow builders navigate AWS re:Invent, to leading some of the largest AWS communities in Latin America, to sharing deep cloud […]
There’s something genuinely energizing about working with startups — something I’ve been doing intensely for more than two years now. Startups operate at a different frequency: the urgency is real, the constraints are tight, and the stakes are personal. Helping them navigate the challenge of proving their business model requires not just technical depth but […]
Have you ever had a brilliant idea for a music app, a custom playlist curator, or a unique way to discover underground tracks on SoundCloud…
AWS announces the general availability of the AWS MCP Server, a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents and coding assistants secure, authenticated access to all AWS services. The AWS MCP Server is part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a suite of tooling that includes the MCP Server, skills, and plugins that help coding agents…
Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood for nearly a thousand years, walked along medieval walls, and spent an evening on a ghost tour hearing stories passed down through centuries. There’s something […]
Late March took me to Seattle for the Specialist Tech Conference, one of the most energizing gatherings of AWS specialists from around the world. It was an incredible opportunity to connect with peers, exchange experiences, and go deep on the latest advancements in Generative AI and Amazon Bedrock — and a powerful reminder of something […]
Azure DevOps enhanced support for Microsoft.Testing.Platform, from running tests to publishing results! The post Microsoft.Testing.Platform Now Fully Supported in Azure DevOps appeared first on .NET Blog.
At SoundCloud, we’re always looking for ways to improve the listening experience for our creators, partners, and listeners. One of the…
To all developers using SoundCloud’s public API — we’re introducing an important change that will affect how you reference resources like…
A while ago we made an improvement to how track and artist information is displayed on SoundCloud, making it clearer and easier to…
We’re working on improving our API offering. In order to do that, a few changes are coming: We need to revoke access for some of you with…
As part of our continuous effort toward making improvements to our API with the hope that we can relaunch API access to all developers, we…
You can now retrieve metadata for our full SoundCloud catalog through our API by providing the new filter in your request. Until recently…
As a part of our efforts to improve API use, we’re introducing a new object that’s more up to date with our current data model. The…
As part of our efforts to improve our APIs, we’re introducing updates on how we paginate over tracks. This only affects developers and apps…
We’re excited to announce the launch of our public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd — the #1 crowdsourced security platform. This public program is open to Bugcrowd’s full crowd of top, trusted whitehat hackers, and we will award up to $1,500 per vulnerability identified on our website, API, and mobile apps.
Today we are launching a new API application process. Starting today, developers will need to fill out an application form to request access…
As well as adding new features and updates, we review existing features to see if they’re still beneficial to the community. As we dug into…
On Monday this week, the Prometheus authors have released version 1.0.0 of the central component of the Prometheus monitoring and alerting system, the Prometheus server. (Other components will follow suit over the next months.) This is a major milestone for the project. Read more about it on the Prometheus blog, and check out the announcement of the CNCF, which has…
Over the last 100 years we have dialed into radio stations at home, on the road, or in the office to access a curated mix of top hits delivered to us by our favorite DJ. With more and more of our daily activities taking place online, we find our source of music now comes from a mix of our mobile…
With more than 125 million tracks from over 12 million creators heard each month on our platform, SoundCloud is uniquely positioned to offer listeners a full spectrum of music discovery. Classic hits, the latest releases, gems from underground talent and the best of what’s up-and-coming – all in one place. How can you make great content discoverable and available at…
We previously introduced new playlist representations. The compact representation returns only the playlist itself without any of the tracks…
We are happy to announce version 3.0.0 of our SoundCloud JavaScript SDK. The new SDK improves stream security and content uploading…
At SoundCloud, we’re building an ecosystem where creativity thrives. Developers are an important part of that ecosystem. We’re continually…
Requests for playlists have always included the full track objects contained within. This representation may be convenient for playlists…
In October 2014, Apple announced that all submissions to the App Store must include 64-bit support by June 1, 2015. The SoundCloud API for…
The SoundCloud API will be dropping support for offset-based pagination on March 2, 2015, in favor of linked partitioning. To page through a…
In previous blog posts, we discussed how SoundCloud has been moving towards a microservice architecture. Soon we had hundreds of services, with many thousand instances running and changing at the same time. With our existing monitoring set-up, mostly based on StatsD and Graphite, we ran into a number of serious limitations. What we really needed was a system with the…
The SoundCloud API will be dropping support for Extensible Markup Language (XML) responses. XML will be phased out on the following schedule…
Let’s talk about the stream. The SoundCloud stream represents stuff that’s relevant to you primarily via your social graph, arranged in time…
SoundCloud is pleased to introduce a new major version of the SoundCloud JavaScript SDK. In version 2, we’ve rewritten much of the internal…
We’ve taken some time to bring all our developer resources together into a single site. In doing so, we’ve reorganized the layout to make…
On Monday, April 7th, 2014, a major security vulnerability in OpenSSL was made public. The vulnerability was filed as CVE-2014-0160 and…
The endpoint has traditionally accepted an parameter for ordering results by either creation date or ‘hotness’. The method for calculating…
We’re making some changes to how we manage our App Gallery and wanted to take some time to explain them to you, our developer community. The…
Today we’re featuring a guest post from our friends at Retronyms. They’ve built some amazing community features into their app Tabletop using the SoundCloud API and have open sourced their CloudSeeder Devkit. This post was written for us by David Shu. David is a software engineer at the Retronyms and has worked on a number of iOS apps, including Tabletop…
A few weeks ago, I attended News Hack Day in San Francisco. News Hack Days are events that bring together journalists, developers and designers for multi day creative coding and brainstorming sessions. I really like the idea of hack days that bring together people from different backgrounds. After chatting with a few journalists, it became obvious to me that recording…
There are many approaches to building libraries that wrap HTTP APIs. For many of our officially supported SDKs we chose to build light wrappers around HTTP client libraries with a few added features to make it easier to work with the SoundCloud API. This approach has a few benefits. It guarantees a certain consistency and is relatively easy to maintain.…
Waveforms I’ve worked at SoundCloud for over two years now, and if there’s one thing I do a lot, it’s color waveforms. Tons of them. And, I’ve done it several different ways. Today, Johannes and I are pumped to announce a new JavaScript library called Waveform.js that will assist you in your coloring efforts. But first, let’s take some time…
Premiere 1.5 Smashing Pumpkins are using a BETA of the next version of Premiere to debut their new record “Oceania.” Here’s what’s new about the app.
In the last weeks we got pretty excited about the idea of using timed comments to create and script rich media experiences. Imagine being able to trigger all kinds of visualizations & interactions for a timed comment while playing a track. Timed Comments with Media
Last week we announced a new integration with Ableton Live 8, that lets you easily share your sounds from within Ableton Live to SoundCloud. Today we’re making the technology behind that integration available to everyone through our new Desktop Sharing Kits. Mac Desktop Sharing Kit
One of the SoundCloud API’s most powerful features is the timed comment. At its core it seems simple enough: a piece of text associated with a point in time for a particular track. But where you see timed opinions, I see a light-weight game scripting engine. So when Johannes Wagener told me he was adding an event to our JS…
SoundCloud is teaming up with Acapela Group for our first Developer Contest. Acapela Group offers amazing text to speech solutions and have a variety of SDKs so you can write apps that create sound files using one of their voices (including hip-hop and country!). Take a listen to some sample voices. We’re calling on our developer community to mashup SoundCloud…
Today we’re officially announcing our JavaScript API for the new HTML5 SoundCloud Widget. To use it, just insert the script tag on a page…
Stratus is a jQuery powered SoundCloud player that lives at the bottom (or top) of your website or blog. In version 2, we’ve rebuilt Stratus from the ground up to include many requested features, a nicer aesthetic, and a much easier installation. Pumped? Yeh, me too. Here’s how to participate in the BETA:
The SoundCloud Developer Community has grown immensely. We have over ten thousand registered applications and over three hundred showcased in our App Gallery. Our goal as the Platform Team is to provide the best API tools possible, while also providing support and inspiration. So far, our primary channels have been this blog, our Twitter account, and our mailing list, hosted…
It’s no secret that SoundCloud is a Ruby shop, but that doesn’t stop us from giving some love to the Pythonistas in our community. Our old Python API wrapper has been neglected. It doesn’t support OAuth 2 or all of the resources made available by our API. It’s old and crufty and we’re sorry for letting it get that way.…
This is not The Greatest Website in the World, no. This is just a tribute. I was approached by Tenacious D a week ago with an incredible quest: raising a phallus shaped phoenix onto the internet (oh and the first clip of audio from their new record.) How could I raise this majestic beast with the power of SoundCloud’s legendary…
Today we’ve added support for our new HTML5 widget to the oEmbed endpoint. Aside from a brand new user interface with lots of improvements, the HTML5 widget doesn’t require Adobe Flash anymore. That means the widget will load much faster and finally work well on most mobile platforms, including Android & iOS. And we won’t stop here. We’ll continue to…
OmniAuth is a great little Rack library that standardizes multi-provider authentication for web applications. As OmniAuth says, “it was created to be powerful, flexible, and do as little as possible.” I use it constantly on hacks that mash up multiple API providers. You can now add SoundCloud to the growing list of strategies OmniAuth 1.0 supports.
Today we’re excited to announce a big update to our JavaScript SDK. Aside from improving the existing functionality like authentication, API…
Competitions are a great way to get your fans involved around a particular theme or release. They encourage original content creation and tend to be extremely viral due to the high level of self-promotion involved with participating. The infrastructure you choose to throw these contests on should be accessible from any device while also providing a nice aesthetic backdrop to…
Not long ago we released a sharing kit for Android. Today, we’re equally excited to announce a similar sharing kit for iOS. With the sharing kit, you can add SoundCloud sharing to your iPhone and iPad apps with only a few lines of code. We provide everything you need to let your users share their sounds to SoundCloud, including authentication,…
Are you an Android developer and want to integrate SoundCloud in your own app? With the new Android Sharing Kit this has become very easy.
It is now possible to share all public tracks and playlists to the connections of the authenticated user. So if a user is already connected e.g. with Facebook on SoundCloud, this connection can be used from your app to share a track.
Today we announce new activities available over the API. As a reminder: Activites are the items on your Dashboard.
Today we announce a better way to share sounds in SoundCloud via the API. The new interface resembles the way sharing happens on the website. You can retrieve, create, update and delete sharings to other users on SoundCloud based on user_id or email address for your tracks and playlists.
If you are looking for some inspiration for your next weekend hack project, here is a list of ideas that could be built using the SoundCloud platform. Feel free to add your own ideas in the comments!
Alongside with the SoundCloud Android app we’ve created a new Java Wrapper for the SoundCloud API and today we can finally release it to the public! It is simple to use, supports OAuth2 and requires a minimum of external dependencies so it should be easily embeddable in both desktop and mobile applications.
On Thursday May 5th 2011 we had an API outage from ~9:00 UTC to ~14:00 UTC. This was caused by a deploy that included a migration with…
We are happy to introduce you to our new developer portal developers.soundcloud.com. Here we are bundling up all the SoundCloud platform…
Our very cool devs Matas and Hannes. With over 15 developers working on the SoundCloud site nowadays, we’re pumping out a steady stream of…
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