Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify

@article{mite2023DecentralizedDA,
  title={Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify},
  author={Darja {\vS}mite and Nils Brede Moe and Marcin Floryan and Javier Gonzalez-Huerta and Michael Dorner and Aivars Sablis},
  journal={J. Syst. Softw.},
  year={2023},
  volume={200},
  pages={111649},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:256931802}
}
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