Let’s go backstage. Welcome to the SoundCloud development blog!

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 new features and scalable web application code. It’s been a long journey building up such a great team, with lots of lessons learned along the way. We’re really thankful for the fact that the web startup community is so open about sharing technical knowledge–this has been super-helpful for us sofar. And we’re still regularly checking blogs of peer companies for updates on the latest available technologies and techniques…

So, we thought that now would be a good time to start sharing back some of the innovation that is coming out of our own team, since we’ve got a fair amount of that going on these days. Our aim is to keep this a low-volume, high-quality blog for all things development related–from nightly hacks at Musichackday to server infrastructure to Javascript lazy-loading techniques to NoSQL installations. First up is a highlight on the newly available CORS support in the SoundCloud API built by our mighty summer intern Thor.

We’re excited about this and hope you’ll like it!