Backstage: Shaping the Future Of Developer Experience

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Backstage is an open platform that indexes an organization’s technology via the Software Catalog, scaffolds new services with software templates that create repositories and register components automatically, and stores docs as docs-as-code rendered in the portal. Spotify runs ~200 plugins built by ~100 teams powering thousands of devs; the community lists 446+ adopters, ~100 contributed plugins, ~19k GitHub stars, ~800 contributors and plug‑ins for GitHub, Jenkins, PagerDuty, Contentful, Stack Overflow and a plugin marketplace.

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1. 0:00Backstage introduction
2. 1:08What is Backstage
3. 3:14Backstage architecture
4. 5:40Demo: software catalog
5. 8:15Demo: software templates
6. 10:20Documentation and onboarding with Backstage
7. 12:46Community adoption
8. 15:13Real-world use cases
9. 21:34Measuring productivity
10. 23:44Future of dev experience

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