Shaping The Future of Developer Productivity with Spotify Backstage
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Backstage is an open source developer portal adopted by over 1,000 companies and impacting roughly 4 million engineers. It delivers a Software Catalog and software templates that create repos, CI/CD, docs and enforce standards like GDPR and security automatically, integrates plugins (GitHub, CircleCI, Kubernetes) and surfaces context-specific telemetry. The community ships changes rapidly (dark mode landed in 24 hours). Demonstrated uses include onboarding golden paths and a COVID x‑ray diagnostic prototype built on Backstage that proved practical in hospitals.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:56What is Backstage?
- 8:31An open platform for building developer portals
- 15:00A sustainable OSS model
- 22:49Centralization of technology assets
- 23:00Demo
- 25:33Software creation
- 25:44Demo
- 27:28Onboarding
- 29:29Cord philosophy
- 31:40A true platform, inside & out
- 40:06Outro
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