How to Succeed with Backstage
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Roadie delivers a turnkey developer portal on Backstage with scorecards, RBAC, a flexible data model and managed upgrades; customers show concrete wins: uplight (250 engineers) reaches 88% catalog completeness in four months, builds 10 scorecards for metrics/observability/logging, and ties ownership to systems-to-components modeling; another customer uses scorecards to gamify catalog adoption and grows tech docs to 304 items; survey finds 75% at least somewhat happy, 25% very happy, and 70% need three or more dedicated Backstage engineers for a year; Roadie now offers Roadie Local as a free on‑prem Helm/docker compose bundle for up to 15 users.
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