What is This Tech Insights Anyways?
summary
Backstage Tech Insights collects time-series facts from third parties, stores them in a DB (supports sqlite or postgres), and runs computations to produce scorecards and checks that roll up into team-level grades; teams scale from ~10 services to hundreds, and historical trends (e.g., severe vulnerabilities dropping from 80 to 3) are queryable. Implementation requires writing TypeScript factory retrievers that fetch and map data, configuring JSON-rules checks, and adding visualizations like graph and big-number cards; alerting to Slack/GitHub is in progress.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:12Brief Overview
- 6:00Data Sources
- 7:25Data
- 12:38Calculations
- 15:56Visualizations
- 19:56Implementation
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