Today, Backstage is used by dozens of companies, spanning retail, gaming, finance, transport, and more, including Netflix, American Airlines, IKEA, Splunk, HP, Expedia, and Peleton. It enables them to better focus on building business value - innovative products and features.” Spotify’s Backstage: An open source platform for developer portals “Backstage as a product and as a platform is really about creating a better experience for engineers - streamlining their workflows, making it easier to share knowledge, and getting the messy parts of infrastructure out of their way. “The problem Backstage solves is complexity - the kind of everyday complexity that can really bog engineers and their teams down, which then slows your whole organization down,” Tyson Singer, Spotify’s head of technology and platforms, told VentureBeat. A company may also contribute resources to community-driven projects where it plays a central part of their critical infrastructure, to help bolster security, for example.īackstage, for its part, is all about building customized “developer portals,” unifying a company’s myriad tooling, services, apps, data, and documents in a single interface through which they can access their cloud providers’ console, troubleshoot Kubernetes, and find all the documentation they need as part of their day-to-day work. For starters, it can help engage the broader software development community and serves as a useful recruitment tool. There are many reasons why a company might choose to open source its internal technologies, or contribute to those maintained by other companies or individuals.
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