Growing Pains: Taming the Post-Startup Stage With Backstage
summary
After rapid growth by acquisition the company inventories ~1,200 repos and builds a catalog of 875 components using composable software templates, then runs a manual push that opens 600+ repo pull requests to seed metadata and starts a weekly archival pipeline to keep quality high. Catalog ownership drives AWS tagging via Terraform at deploy time, a custom Kubernetes label controller enforces domain labels at runtime, and the result is automated alert routing, domain cost reporting, just-in-time production access, and a sustained 30-person platform team supporting scale.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Backstage at Spoton
- 2:46Day one principles
- 6:42Composable templates
- 12:00Catalog quality
- 12:20Scaling Backstage
- 17:18Manual work vs platform
- 18:21Backstage as truth
- 23:40Key takeaways
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