Building Open Developer Platforms with Backstage

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Backstage is an open source developer portal used to catalog and bootstrap services at scale — Spotify runs it over 1000+ microservices. The demo creates a repo from a YAML software template and wires ownership, CI/CD and Kubernetes Helm deployment scaffolds. Plugins shown include Kubernetes topology, image registry, search backends (in-memory, Elasticsearch, Postgres) and a homegrown Matomo plugin for analytics, all working to make discovery, docs and lifecycle traces searchable via software templates.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:53What is Backstage
3. 8:10Backstage architecture
4. 12:25Software templates
5. 14:56Extending with plugins
6. 16:42Demo: software templating
7. 19:09Plugins in Hana CDP
8. 22:47Adopting as IDP
9. 24:10Q&A

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