Spotify Backstage

Life as a developer can be overwhelming. There’s an explosion of available technologies to choose from, your stack is getting more complex, everything has its own interface and day-to-day responsibilities seem to keep growing. If you’re finding it all hard to keep track of, don’t worry, you’re not alone. We felt this pain at Spotify and could measure the impact it was having. In 2016 we turned our attention to prioritize developers, and their software, to create the most effective developer experience in the world. The outcome of that was Backstage, an internal developer portal, a frontend to your entire infrastructure integrating: tooling, services/applications/data and docs. In 2020 we open sourced and donated Backstage to the CNCF, making it available for everyone to use. This breakout session will focus on a conceptual overview of Backstage and dig into the real pain points it addresses for developers at hundreds of tech companies (big and small) worldwide.