Lessons learned: how to make most of Backstage when building your Portal

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Backstage is used as a development platform (TypeScript scaffold with frontend and backend) to build InnerSource Portals that go beyond a developer table view by embedding Backstage UI into a broader app, adding interactive GIS-style maps that layer teams, activity, quality and satisfaction, and extending the System Model with custom entity kinds and relations. A plugin ecosystem plus AI pipelines (extract last 100 issues into CSV → GPT generates 5 questions → code → answers → persona summaries) keeps content fresh and surfaces nontechnical insights.

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1. 0:00Introduction to portals
2. 3:19Demo of Backstage portal
3. 5:29What is Backstage
4. 7:42Revisit the UIX
5. 9:49EMB model extensions
6. 13:04Smart about content
7. 15:38Conclusion and resources

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