Introduction to Backstage

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Backstage presents a centralized software catalog with code-first component YAML, reusable software templates and an extensible plugins marketplace; the demo runs on Kubernetes with Argo CD + Postgres + S3 and shows Prometheus, GitHub and Argo CD plugins wired into component pages. Claims: spin up projects in seconds, restore ownership to developers, reduce context switching. Project stats cited: ~20k GitHub stars, ~600 adopting companies and hundreds of plugins; demo URL shown as demo.backstage.io.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:03What is Backstage
3. 4:15Developer portals benefits
4. 6:24Why companies adopt Backstage
5. 9:16Who benefits from Backstage
6. 11:01Backstage adoption trends
7. 13:30Ownership with Backstage
8. 14:36Brad’s Backstage reasons
9. 16:01Core Backstage features
10. 19:14Getting started with Backstage
11. 25:10Closing thoughts and Q&A

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