Platforming the Platform: Running Our IDP With Our IDP
Talkat Platform Engineering Day North America 2025 · on Monday, 2025-11-10· at 14:05· Building B | Level 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1·
summary
Spotify runs its Backstage-based IDP Portal on itself so the platform is both product and customer, ingesting logs and metrics via OTLP push and Prometheus scrapes into OpenTelemetry collectors, transporting through Google PubSub into VictoriaMetrics, with traces and auto‑instrumentation planned. Tenant isolation and SOC2 posture stay intact while leveraging existing observability tooling. Results show faster delivery, reduced MTTR, noisy alerts that need tuning, and measurable gains in developer happiness and operational confidence.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Why IDP matters
- 2:48Building B2B IDP
- 4:13Choosing observability
- 5:57Platform success principles
- 6:59Tenant isolation patterns
- 7:42Observability pipeline
- 8:46Measuring speed cost
- 9:27Dogfooding with empathy
- 10:08Future plans
- 11:35Q&A
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