When R&R WFM needed to define internal tech standards, they consulted those who would know best: their devs.

How R&R’s devs are building an IDP on their terms

It’s easier than ever for AWS customers to supercharge their Backstage adoption with Spotify’s proven plugins and expertise.

Now available on the AWS Marketplace: Spotify Plugins for Backstage and Spotify Enterprise Support for Backstage

How Silverflow combined Soundcheck with in-office leaderboards to create healthy team competition — and up to 20% healthier tech.

Building better code at Silverflow: Backstage, Soundcheck, and the power of gamification

Introducing starter templates, pre-configured fact collectors, a new Dry Run feature for testing checks, and lots more.

New Soundcheck features make it easy to create, configure, and test checks

Learn how we use the Soundcheck plugin to maintain the tech health of our components and foster a healthier tech culture across hundreds of teams.

7 ways Soundcheck is a catalyst for a healthier tech culture at Spotify

Learn how quickly you can populate a brand new Backstage Software Catalog with your services, websites, and libraries. No coding required

A sneak peek at the Catalog Wizard in Spotify Portal

Introducing Spotify Portal, personalized Enterprise Support, and all the latest updates to Spotify Plugins.

ICYMI: A new product lineup at our roadmap webinar

Check out the Spotify for Backstage Wrapped blog for 2023.

Spotify for Backstage Wrapped 2023: A year of firsts!

With BackstageCon and KubeCon 2023 in the books, read our recap.

Wrap up: BackstageCon ‘23, KubeCon + Cloud Native NA

We just launched the Spotify Marketplace for Backstage on backstage.spotify.com! Read more to discover what is now available on the Marketplace

Introducing the Spotify Marketplace for Backstage

The Spotify team held our second Backstage roadmap webinar. Learn more about Spotify’s future Backstage investments.

ICYMI: Our second roadmap webinar is in the books!

Shutterstock has been using hacking to foster innovation since 2003 and now leverages Skill Exchange to streamline their hackathon process.

How Shutterstock utilizes Skill Exchange to build on 20 years of hacking heritage

We found that employees who participated in applied learning activities on Skill Exchange displayed increased productivity, decreased retention, and higher rates of career growth.

Beyond the classroom: The impact of learning with Skill Exchange

Find out how Soundcheck provides guidance to measure and improve the health of Spotify’s software.

How Soundcheck improves tech health and developer productivity at Spotify

Get the most out of the Insights plugin with these top five use cases. 

Five ways to leverage the Insights plugin

The Spotify Plugins for Backstage bundle gets some exciting upgrades in the latest release. Read on to learn more about what’s new.

Insights and Soundcheck get exciting updates in our July release

The Skill Exchange marketplace within Backstage manages our annual Global Hack Week with hundreds of hacks from thousands of employees across the globe

How Spotify uses Skill Exchange to power our Hack Week

The Spotify team held our first Backstage roadmap webinar. Learn more about Spotify's future Backstage investments.

ICYMI: There’s a lot on our roadmap for Backstage

The Spotify team is launching a commercial Roadmap Webinar series beginning in May. Join us to learn more about what we are building next for Backstage and the bundle

What’s next for Backstage and the Spotify plugin bundle

Learn about how Backstage affects developer activity, development lifecycle, and developer retention at Spotify.

How Spotify measures the value of Backstage

Read this Adopter Spotlight to learn how Toyota combined the power of Backstage and AWS to cut costs and speed up deployment.

Adopter Spotlight: Toyota revs up secure app development with Backstage and AWS

The Spotify Plugins for Backstage subscription is here! Learn more about the plugins and how you can get started with them.

Now Available: Spotify Plugins for Backstage

We had a great time in Detroit! Learn more about our first dedicated conference to Backstage and KubeCon NA 2022.

ICYMI: BackstageCon & KubeCon NA 2022 Recap

Our bundle subscription is launching December 15. Get a sneak peek at five plugins designed to supercharge your internal developer portal.

Launching soon: Spotify Plugins for Backstage

Backstage’s security posture continues to mature with its latest security improvements and new threat model.

Backstage Security Audit & Updates

Backstage Search is out of Beta! Keep reading to learn more about what Backstage Search is and the features that are included in the release.

Releasing Backstage Search 1.0

Discover our new learning experience for Backstage. Designed to help get you up and running with Backstage faster than ever.

Knowledge is power: Introducing Backstage Learn

Hear the story of Backstage, from inside Spotify to Netflix, American Airlines, and the rest of the open source community.

Listen to the Backstage episodes of the NerdOut@Spotify podcast

TELUS is a world-leading communications technology. Read about lessons they learned about standing up Backstage as an early adopter.

How we’re building for simplicity at TELUS

Learn how the largest digital real estate company in Brazil uses GitHub Actions to integrate their services with Backstage.

Adopter Spotlight: QuintoAndar uses Backstage to create a source of truth

If you’ve been waiting for Backstage to come out of beta, Backstage 1.0 is here! Learn more about what this release means.

New release: Backstage 1.0

Happy second birthday Backstage! Read this post to learn more about how we have grown as a project and community.

Backstage Turns Two!

Read about the key takeaways from the first Backstage Unconference of the year in this guest post from Roadie’s David Tuite.

Backstage Unconference recap: Homepage, systems and domains, TechDocs, InfoSec, and more!

Celebrate our one year anniversary of community sessions and catch up on the community’s progress.

Community Session: One year of sessions, catalog entity insights, TechDocs add-on framework, and more!

Learn about Backstage Upgrade Helper and how it can help you keep your application up-to-date in a simple way.

Avoid upgrade surprises with Backstage Upgrade Helper

Watch the videos to see the Q1 product roadmap, a preview of the permissions framework, and more.

Community Session: The road to 1.0, permissions framework preview, and more

We’re excited to announce the arrival of homepage templates. Customize the front door of your Backstage dev portal the easy way.

Say hi to Backstage homepage templates!

A growing community, new features, and a more stable core — the maintainers look back on project milestones and stats from the last year.

Backstage Wrapped 2021

Watch the videos for Brex’s adopter journey, a demo of the new app upgrade tool, branding tips, and other holiday treats.

Community Session: Brex, Backstage Upgrade Helper, branding tips, and more

We wanted to make it easier for you to introduce Backstage to others, so we made a deck. Actually, two decks. Steal them both!

Steal this deck!

First things first: Wondering what a developer portal is and why anyone would want one? Watch this two-minute video.

Explainer video: What is Backstage?

Watch the videos to get a first look at Box’s new developer portal, including a demo of their custom plugin for Prefect workflows.

Community Session: Box debuts their Backstage developer portal, plugin news, and more

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.

Coming next year from Spotify: paid plugins for Backstage

Check out our talk “Shifting Spotify Engineering from Spreadsheets to Backstage” to get the inside story of our infrastructure evolution.

Watch our Backstage talk at KubeCon NA 2021

We want to build a flexible authorization framework that supports a wide variety of authorization methods, including RBAC (role-based access control).

What’s happening with Backstage permissions and authorization

For the first time, we hosted separate tracks for adopters and contributors. Join us for double the demos and double the conversation.

Community Session: Prometheus plugin, homepage templates, and more

How do you show your developers the value they’re getting from using Backstage? These are the metrics we use at Expedia Group.

How we measure Backstage proof of value at Expedia Group

Let’s talk metrics. How can you tell if you’re improving developer experience and effectiveness? Here’s how we do it at Spotify.

How we measure Backstage success at Spotify

Learn how international sports streamer DAZN made the leap from storing manifest files in repos to a fully functional developer portal.

Adopter Spotlight: DAZN scores with Backstage

We reached an exciting milestone: 50 public adopters! Read why our public adopters are so important for growing the community.

The Big 5-0

Spotify’s Pia Nilsson digs into the ins and outs of developer effectiveness on the Thoughtworks tech podcast.

How Backstage made our developers more effective — and how it can help yours, too

Learn about the latest release of our docs-like-code solution to technical documentation.

The TechDocs Beta has landed

FireHydrant, Expedia Group, and Loblaw demo incident monitoring, a search modal proof of concept, and a GitLab plugin for Backstage.

Community Session: FireHydrant, Expedia, Loblaw, and more

Need help getting Backstage up and running?👋 We got you.

How do I get started with Backstage?

Watch American present their production version of Backstage, aka Runway.

Adopter Spotlight: American Airlines demos Runway

Spotify, SDA SE, Roadie.io, and Splunk share support for new search engines, AWS S3 integration, and an Xcode plugin.

Community Session: Elasticsearch, AWS S3, Xcode, and more

See what features and improvements are being prioritized this quarter (and beyond).

Product roadmap: Q3 2021

Learn about the latest release for creating push-button deployments.

Software Templates now in Beta

Watch Splunk share their production version of Backstage, aka Pink Phonebook.

Community Session: Splunk shares their Backstage developer portal

The new Backstage Search is now available in alpha, ready for you to start building on.

The Backstage Search platform: a customizable search tool built just for you

The Backstage community is growing, so we’re increasing support for adopters.

Calling all adopters: Welcome to backstage.spotify.com

First consider the three main jobs to be done (create, manage, explore), then the size of your engineering organization.

Spotify’s Backstage Blog

Where do you start when adopting Backstage?