How We Made Backstage Improve Developer Efficiency of 1000+ En...
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Dynatrace adopts Backstage as the companywide developer portal aiming to help 1,000+ engineers but admits adoption is still growing after about a year of rollout. Engineering productivity replaces a homegrown initializer with Backstage, integrating Dynatrace Teams, GitHub/GitOps, Gitpod workspaces and npm-based SDKs, while automating catalog creation remains partial. Key technical gaps: richer templating like wait-for-PR gating, consistent onboarding from package.json metadata, and propagating template updates. Observability uses OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/log analytics, synthetic and real-user monitoring, and traces to detect misconfiguration and track adoption.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 2:37Internal tool development
- 6:28Transition to backstage
- 9:30Productizing the portal
- 13:08Onboarding hurdles
- 15:35Observability and monitoring
- 22:51Future steps and takeaways
- 24:44Q&A session
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