Lightning Talk: The Backstage Builder Experience at Adyen
summary
Adyen turns Backstage from a barely used POC into a portal used by over 1,000 developers by enabling builders to ship plugins fast and with quality: yarn new scaffolder template for bootstrapping, shared UI components surfaced in Storybook, TanStack for data fetching patterns and React Hook Form for forms, and custom ESLint rules plus SonarQube for quality gates. Deployment uses Kubernetes and Argo CD to create ephemeral Backstage preview environments per merge request and separate testing/staging/production paths with self-service releases; remaining pain points are compatibility migrations and a slowing monolithic bundling pipeline.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Why internal developer portals matter
- 2:30Builders in Backstage
- 3:52Building the right team
- 4:55Enabling builders with guides
- 6:18Front-end expertise for builders
- 7:19Giving builders autonomy
- 9:05Current challenges and improvements
- 10:29Q&A
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