Backstage & Internal Developer Portals

Martina Iglesias Fernández (@martina_if, CTO)  & David Tuite (@dtuite, CEO of @Roadiehq) talk about the rise of Internal Developer Portals, the problems they solve, the creation of Backstage and IDP’s as a SaaS service.

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SHOW NOTES:

• CNCF Backstage Project
• Roadie.io - Backstage as a SaaS
• CNCF On-Demand Webinar: Driving Adoption of your Backstage IDP

Topic 1 - David & Martina, Welcome to the show. Please give everyone a brief introduction and how you got started with Backstage and internal development portals.

Topic 2 - Backstage was spun out of Spotify and is now a CNCF project. What problems were developers seeing and what is the origin story of Backstage?

Topic 3 - What were the immediate and long term advantages of consolidating the development experience on the Backstage platform?  

Topic 4 -  There is always a healthy tension with development platforms. How do you balance between setting standards to consolidate and providing freedom of choice?

Topic 5 - One of the common takeaways we have seen recently is that the IDP is the output product of Platform Engineering. Do you agree with this statement and what has your experience shown? Is this more about a set of common standards and automation or about a “product” such as an IDP.

Topic 6 - Why does an IDP succeed or fail?

Topic 7- Backstage doesn’t have a reputation of being the easiest to configure or operate. Is this where Backstage as a service comes in? What are the advantages and disadvantages to Backstage as a Service?

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