Backstage Community
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.
Meetups
Backstage Community Sessions, hosted by Spotify
The next session is on January 19th (Adopters track) and 26th (Contributors track). Click here for more details.
- Join monthly meetups organized by the Backstage core team and contributors
- View upcoming agendas, notes, and archives
- View Google calendar (Click + to add)
Backstage Open Mic, hosted by Frontside
Open Mic is a monthly get-together of users sharing their experiences working with Backstage in their teams and insights about the ecosystem's plugins.
Newsletters
Podcasts
- 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"
Talks
- 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"
Case Studies
- American Airlines Runway - 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.
Blogs
- 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
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