Our Journey To a Unified Developer Experience With Backstage
summary
Booking.com converts Backstage into a centralized developer portal called BStage that connects 1.5k users to 45 custom tools and a 400k-item software catalog, replacing fragmented plugins with a centralized team page of widgets. They build personalized dashboards, AI-powered global search, onboarding plus AI code reviews, entity pages that unify signals, and an AI summary for quick health checks. Adoption improves tool development velocity but user feedback shows the UX still needs continuous iteration; roadmap adds chatbot, inbox, and lifecycle automation.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Backstage journey intro
- 1:07Core problems at Booking.com
- 2:33B Stage launch success
- 3:55B Stage challenges
- 5:19Engineering portal strategy
- 7:24Teams page reception
- 9:50Usability issues feedback
- 11:16Portal improvements
- 13:44User feedback learning
- 15:10Future developer portal
- 17:19Key takeaways
- 18:22Q&A
- 19:06Adoption numbers
- 20:30Generating entity YAMLs
- 21:41Security visibility
- 23:04Closing remarks
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