Improving Developer Experience with Open Source 1
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Backstage is an open source developer portal that reduces onboarding friction by centralizing metadata, CI/CD, docs and cloud links; Spotify measures onboarding with 60 days to 10th pull request before Backstage and now shows faster ramp-up. Architecture uses YAML entities, a scaffolder/templates system to create repos and environments, and a plugin model with over 120 plugins (80% contributions from teams). Donated to CNCF, used by 310 companies and ~1M engineers, maintained by a small core team.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:23Susana Daniels at Spotify
- 1:28Developer onboarding challenges
- 3:43Spotify's DX journey
- 5:50Hyper growth and onboarding
- 7:57Mistakes with System Z
- 9:02Onboarding success metrics
- 9:42Reimagining portal with Backstage
- 11:30Backstage success at Spotify
- 12:57Open sourcing Backstage
- 14:43Live Backstage demo
- 25:12Why Backstage matters
- 26:38Measuring DX with SPACE
- 29:49Backstage as single pane
- 31:34Building Backstage community
- 32:46Getting started with Backstage
- 33:27Q&A
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