Welcome to the Backstage community!
Here you will find ways to engage with the community — join meetups, sign up for newsletters, catch up on podcasts, talks, and so many other things happening around Backstage.
For support or more immediate technical discussions, join us in Discord.
Backstage Community Sessions, hosted by Spotify
- Join monthly meetups organized by the Backstage core team and contributors
- View upcoming agendas, notes, and archives
- View Google calendar (Click + to add)
Backstage Users Unconference, hosted by Roadie and Frontside
Inactive since March 2022
Backstage Users Unconference is a quarterly get-together of users sharing their experiences working with Backstage in their teams and insights about the ecosystem's plugins. Show up and suggest topics on the day.
- The Stack Overflow Podcast: Hypergrowth headaches (Ep. 485)
- NerdOut@Spotify - Backstage miniseries
- Episode 01: What is Backstage?
- Episode 02: Open Issues
- Episode 03: Community Builders
- Episode 04: Backstage in the Wild (featuring Netflix and American Airlines)
- ThoughtWorks: "Making developer effectiveness a reality"
- Spotify: A Product Story, Episode 08: “When to build vs buy — and when to open source”
- The Kubelist Podcast, Episode #11: "Backstage with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke of Spotify"
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google, Episode 136: "Backstage Kubernetes"
- Software Engineering Daily: "Backstage: Spotify Developer Portals"
- Technology Radar, Vol. 23
- Changelog, Episode 415: "Spotify's open platform for shipping at scale"
- QuintoCast: "Tornando a Engenharia do QuintoAndar navegável" (PT-BR)
- Implementing a developer portal - The Engineering Enablement Podcast - DX
- Front End Happy Hour - Backstage - Behind the bar
- The Good Guy: Platform Engineering Series
- Stack Overflow Webinar: Using developer portals to enhance developer happiness (and productivity)
- Productivity Engineering Silicon Valley: "Developer Portals and Platforms" Panel Discussion with Spotify, Lyft, PayPal, and Netflix
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021: "TechDocs: Unlocking the Potential of Engineers' Collective Knowledge" (video)
- Reddit AMA on r/kubernetes
- All Things Open 2020: "Backstage.io: Spotify's platform developer experience"
- QuintoAndar Tech Talks: "Como desenvolvemos o developer portal usando o Backstage.io" (PT-BR)
- American Airlines Runway, Part 1 / Part 2 - CantonCoders: The Developer Experience @ American Airlines driven by Spotify Backstage
- Expedia Group MVP - How Expedia Group defined their Backstage vision and success metrics and built a Backstage MVP to satisfy them.
- Lunar Bank - Adopting Backstage into a 40 person engineering team.
- I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free - Stack Overflow Blog
- Combining Incident Management and Service Catalogs - Rootly
- Runway - The Developer Experience Product @ American Airlines
- Backstage Adoption at Brex - Brex Tech Blog
- Backstage by Spotify - The Ultimate Guide
- How we are improving developer experience at QuintoAndar with backstage.io - QuintoAndar Tech Blog
- How we are creating a knowledge base on QuintoAndar with an Open Source Q&A plugin on Backstage - QuintoAndar Tech Blog
- Relieve Developers' churn in your Cloud Native strategy with Backstage
- Building a Developer Portal with Backstage - SDA SE (Part 1) / Part 2
- A Developer's Perspective: Lessons from Open Source with FireHydrant and Backstage - FireHydrant.io
- Integrating Backstage at DAZN - DAZN Engineering
- How 5 companies got their developers to care about cloud costs - InfoWorld
- A Product Story: The Lessons of Backstage and Spotify’s Autonomous Culture - Spotify Engineering
- Shifting cost optimisation left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights - RedMonk
- Technology Radar, Vol. 24: Platforms, Backstage blip - ThoughtWorks
- Optimizing micro-feedback loops in engineering - LeadDev
- Backstage integration with the Snyk API - Snyk Blog
- Happy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast - Spotify Engineering
- How Spotify Leverages Paved Paths and Common Tooling to Improve Productivity - InfoQ
- Design a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers - The New Stack
- Maximizing Developer Effectiveness - martinfowler.com
- Showcase - Material-UI
- Backstage and TechDocs - docslikecode.com
- Build better developer portals with Spotify’s Backstage - LogRocket
- Fk-covid: A Kubernetes Bundle for Inferencing COVID X-Rays with Machine Learning - Weaveworks
- How we use Backstage at Spotify - Spotify Engineering
- What the Heck is Backstage Anyway - Spotify Engineering
- Muito prazer, Backstage.io uma nova forma de criar portais para times de desenvolvimento (PT-BR)
- Backstage and Terraform — A Powerful Combination for Ops, Wonderful for Devs
- Welcome to Backstage!
- Writing Backstage Plugins
- Building Backstage Catalog Providers
- Processing Backstage Entities
- Implementing Backstage Search Collator
- Sunrise: Zalando's developer platform based on Backstage - lessons learned
- Avoiding Pitfalls With Backstage Catalog
- Going Backstage with OPA
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