Backstage.io: Spotify's platform developer experience

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Backstage.io is an open platform that centralizes a company’s software via a small YAML-backed service catalog and a plugin system that surfaces CI, docs, APIs and metrics inside one UI. It ships templated generators for new microservices, a cost insights plugin for per-service cloud spend, and an internal library of about 140 plugins (roughly ten already open sourced). Spotify reports onboarding time dropping from 55 days to 22 days, showing the platform materially reduces discovery and integration friction.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:07What is Backstage trying to solve
3. 1:51Open source tools
4. 3:24Single pane of glass
5. 7:31How does it work
6. 12:47Call to action
7. 18:47Plugins
8. 21:37Building plugins
9. 22:32UX guidelines
10. 25:57Development
11. 32:05Other companies
12. 37:29Future plans

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