Backstage: Restoring Order To Your Chaos

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Backstage is an extensible developer portal that consolidates CI/CD, docs, APIs and ownership into a service catalog with YAML-backed entities and relations, backed by a plugin architecture (about 150 plugins at Spotify, 100+ adopters). The scaffolder or software templates create repos, wire up GitHub Actions, deploy to GKE and even auto-create Grafana dashboards via TypeScript actions. Measured impact: time to 10th PR drops from ~60 days to under 20 (10–14 average).

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:22Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals.
3. 11:25Core Philosophy
4. 14:22Quick Demo
5. 26:52The Software Model

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