Navigating Backstage: A Year in Developer Life

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Spotify builds and runs Backstage as a developer portal that centralizes a software catalog, searchable index, scaffolder templates and TechDocs; the company reports half a million docs in one year, a reduction from ~60 to 20 days to 10th PR for new hires, and a Fleet rollout system that fixes a Log4j-style vulnerability in 9 hours versus days. Over 80% of backend components accept automated PRs, the project is donated to CNCF, and a packaged quickstart called Backstage in a Box is available.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:10Agenda
3. 2:44Developer experience
4. 7:04What's a developer platform?
5. 20:10A year in the life of a SW engineer
6. 41:54Outro

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