Shaping The Future of Developer Productivity with Spotify Backstage • Lee Mills • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOaar https://gotoaarhus.com Lee Mills - Senior Engineering Manager at Spotify ORIGINAL TALK TITLE Shaping The Future of Developer Productivity with Backstage RESOURCES https://backstage.io Lee https://linkedin.com/in/codetoy ABSTRACT The CNCF Landscape offers an incredible and diverse ecosystem of frameworks, technologies, and platforms. Your teams have their own implementations of these technologies. Onboarding new developers is super confusing, and docs are scattered around the place. In short: chaos and fragmentation in dozens of different tools. The solution to this might be… another portal? Backstage, an open source platform you can use to build your own developer portal. It is highly customisable and adopted by companies like Unity, Netflix, American Airlines, and Epic Games. Lee will share the lessons learned and latest tips from the hundreds of Backstage adopters and thousands of contributors. Lee will dig into core features such as the Software Catalog and software templates that are changing the way users interact and manage their ecosystem. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:56 What is Backstage? 08:31 An open platform for building developer portals 15:00 A sustainable OSS model 22:49 Centralization of technology assets 23:00 Demo 25:33 Software creation 25:44 Demo 27:28 Onboarding 27:34 Demo 29:29 Cord philosophy 31:40 A true platform, inside & out 40:06 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotoaarhus.com/2023/sessions/2676 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Joakim Sunden & Marcus Hammarberg • Kanban in Action • https://amzn.to/3n1Fmna Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang & Ya Xu • Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments • https://amzn.to/3JlY4NZ Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois & John Willis • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/3C0Rj0C Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Lean Software Development • https://amzn.to/3CxlMUq Marty Cagan • Inspired • https://amzn.to/3dPz7iq Marty Cagan • Empowered • https://amzn.to/42kuKAj https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Spotify #SpotifyBackstage #Backstage #BackstagePlatform #CNCF #CloudNative #LeeMills CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1