Improving Developer Experience with Backstage

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Backstage is an open developer portal that Spotify built to cut onboarding friction: before it took 60 days to reach 10 pull requests, now teams scaffold compliant repos via software templates and the scaffolder and register services in a YAML-driven catalog. The system runs as a plugin platform (120+ plugins, >80% community‑contributed internally, 60+ OSS plugins), integrates GitHub/GitLab, dashboards and monitoring, and can be self‑hosted or obtained as a hosted service from Roadie.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:44What Did We Experience at Spotify
3. 5:37Developer Portal
4. 7:44Prioritize the Developer Experience
5. 9:35Open Source Backstage
6. 13:00Golden Pass
7. 15:41Launch Application
8. 20:36Kubernetes Object Model
9. 23:42Software Templates
10. 32:34What Makes a Developer Happy
11. 37:24How Many People Do I Need To To Maintain Backstage
12. 38:09Three Types of Plugins
13. 38:50Plugins

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