The Backstage Builder Experience at Adyen
summary
Adyen runs backstage as a single-portal platform and reports a two‑year build-from-zero journey: React front end, Node.js back end, Postgres, a populated catalog and many custom plugins built in‑house. Engineering enables builders with Backstage CLI templates since 1.36, Tech Docs, Storybook components, TanStack for data fetching, and linting via SonarQube and ESLint. Deployments remain monolithic but CI uses Argo CD ephemeral environments for MR previews; roadmap points to micro frontends, faster pipelines, and migrating legacy plugins.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Backstage at Adyen intro
- 1:05What is Backstage
- 3:50Custom plugins power
- 5:35Two-year portal journey
- 6:58Building Backstage team
- 8:21Tech docs to fight tribal knowledge
- 9:24Plugin creation standardization
- 10:26Front-end expertise gaps
- 11:49Storybook for UI guidance
- 12:10Autonomous deployment for builders
- 13:54Merge request autonomy
- 14:56Backstage adoption challenges
- 16:38Closing remarks & Q&A
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