Spotify’s Backstage Blog
News, product updates, and resources for adopting Backstage
- Jen Kelly, Spotify
Explainer video: What is Backstage?
First things first: Wondering what a developer portal is and why anyone would want one? Watch this two-minute video.
Read More - Suzanne Daniels, Spotify
Community Session: Box debuts their Backstage developer portal, plugin news, and more
Watch the videos to get a first look at Box’s new developer portal, including a demo of their custom plugin for Prefect workflows.
Read More - Austin Lamon, Spotify
Coming next year from Spotify: paid plugins for Backstage
In addition to the open source plugins that we’ll continue to release for Backstage, we’re going to begin offering Spotify-built paid plugins.
Read More - Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify
Watch our Backstage talk at KubeCon NA 2021
Check out our talk “Shifting Spotify Engineering from Spreadsheets to Backstage” to get the inside story of our infrastructure evolution.
Read More - Adam Stevenson, Spotify
What’s happening with Backstage permissions and authorization
We want to build a flexible authorization framework that supports a wide variety of authorization methods, including RBAC (role-based access control).
Read More - Himanshu Mishra, Spotify
Community Session: Prometheus plugin, homepage templates, and more
For the first time, we hosted separate tracks for adopters and contributors. Join us for double the demos and double the conversation.
Read More - Sneha Kumar, Expedia Group
How we measure Backstage proof of value at Expedia Group
How do you show your developers the value they’re getting from using Backstage? These are the metrics we use at Expedia Group.
Read More - Helen Greul, Spotify
How we measure Backstage success at Spotify
Let’s talk metrics. How can you tell if you’re improving developer experience and effectiveness? Here’s how we do it at Spotify.
Read More - Helen Greul, Spotify
Adopter Spotlight: DAZN scores with Backstage
Learn how international sports streamer DAZN made the leap from storing manifest files in repos to a fully functional developer portal.
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