What Is Backstage and Why Should You Care?

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Backstage is Spotify’s open-source Internal Developer Portal (IDP) framework for platform engineering: a Developer Portal / Developer Platform that helps DevOps and Software Engineering teams ship faster with less friction. In this video you’ll learn how Backstage centralises your software catalog, TechDocs, templates (golden paths), and integrations so engineers stop hunting across dashboards and start building. What you’ll learn: - What Backstage is (and what it isn’t) - The Software Catalog: ownership, health, dependencies, and “where everything lives” - Scorecards for standards and compliance at scale - Templates + scaffolding to create services the right way from day one - TechDocs: docs in-repo, browsable, and discoverable - Plugins: connect your existing stack (GitHub, Jenkins, PagerDuty, Kubernetes, Datadog, etc.) The trade-offs: adoption effort, platform team workload, and when it’s overkill Chapters: 00:00 What is Backstage (Spotify IDP framework) 00:22 Why teams build an Internal Developer Portal 00:46 Software Catalog (service ownership + visibility) 01:12 Scorecards (standards + compliance) 01:40 Templates / Scaffolding (golden paths) 02:02 TechDocs (docs-in-repo) 02:31 Plugins + integrations (DevOps toolchain) 03:00 Why leadership cares (clarity at scale) 03:31 The cost of “free” (setup + adoption) 03:56 When Backstage is overkill (team size/scale) 04:19 Summary (what Backstage gives you) 04:42 Next up: Cortex (managed alternative) #PlatformEngineering #Backstage #DeveloperPortal