Shifting Spotify Engineering from Spreadsheets to Backstage

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Spotify describes moving from spreadsheets to a developer portal that centralizes metadata in YAML catalog-info.yaml, automates project creation with software templates, and runs pluggable processors to ingest and decorate entities. Backstage powers TechDocs, PagerDuty links, CI views and a plugin ecosystem of 115 plugins contributed by 58 teams, with ~500 contributors and ~50 public adopters; Spotify reports it cut onboarding time in half and surfaces 9000+ data pipelines and ML models through the same catalog.

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2. 0:56The Stone Age
3. 3:19The Iron Age
4. 6:20The Golden Age Present Day

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