How Spotify Built Honk: From Backstage to Agentic Coding at Scale
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Spotify built a background coding agent that lets any developer kick off a new feature with a single Slack message. Internally, it’s called Honk — but it’s more sophisticated than its name sounds.
The real story of Honk is the platform behind it. Powered by Claude Code and built on top of Spotify’s internal development platforms — Backstage and Fleet Management — Honk delivers AI-powered migrations at scale, complete with a verification loop that makes nondeterministic changes more predictable.
In a new on-demand webinar, senior staff engineers Stefan Särne and Max Charas walk through how Spotify built Honk to handle complex code changes — in a single repo or across thousands at once — enabling their developers and their AI agents to ship safely at unprecedented speed and scale.
