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Backstage is an open source platform for building developer portals. We’ve been using our homegrown version at Spotify for years — so it’s already packed with features. (We have over 120 internal plugins, built by 60 different teams.) In this live demo recording, Stefan Ålund, product manager for Backstage, tells the origin story of Backstage and gives you a tour of how we use it here at Spotify.
0:00 Introduction
1:50 What is Backstage, why we built it, and why we made it open source
5:38 Overview of Backstage’s personalized home page
7:28 How Backstage simplifies and standardizes the creation of software components
10:28 How Backstage can help you manage all your organization’s software
11:55 The importance of the ownership model at Spotify
12:49 Backstage as a communication tool, leveraging visualizations and gamification to drive tech migrations, Test Certified programs, and more
14:55 The Backstage Software Catalog (more than just a services catalog)
17:25 Our “docs like code” approach to creating better documentation
19:00 Golden Paths
19:30 What is a “plugin”? How Backstage becomes an extensible platform
22:20 Data pipelines/workflows in Backstage and the benefit of a consistent UX when switching between tools
23:38 Our vision for Backstage and how to customize Backstage to fit your own infrastructure
25:03 Q&A with attendees, including more nitty-gritty details (Have a question about Backstage? It might be answered here!)
This demo was recorded on April 28, 2020, in Stockholm, Sweden. But yes, that is a moisture farm on the planet Jakku behind Stefan. The magic of virtual backgrounds!
Learn what else you can build with Backstage on our blog:
https://backstage.io/blog/2020/03/18/what-is-backstage
What are these videos?
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/04/21/how-we-use-backstage-at-spotify/
Get started with Backstage on GitHub:
https://github.com/spotify/backstage
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