Backstage Plugins: Another way to communicate your data
summary
Backstage plugins are used at Spotify to surface performance and quality data from third‑party systems into one developer portal, with the Lighthouse squad aggregating 16 billion metrics per week into dashboards that compare apps, features, and versions. The team ships a three‑month MVP that links out to external tools for drilldown rather than reimplementing them, and the platform already hosts 250 internal plugins (about 130 on the public marketplace), proving the approach scales and actually improves developer workflows.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:42What is Backstage
- 4:10Plugins architecture
- 7:26Backstage philosophy
- 11:25Spotify Lighthouse plugin
- 16:21Starting with plugins
- 18:51Q&A
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