Backstage, with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke

Feb 2, 2021

Backstage is a platform for building developer portals, powered by a centralized service catalog. It was built at Spotify and both open sourced and donated to the CNCF in 2020. A Kubernetes plugin was recently added. We talk to maintainers Lee Mills and Matt Clarke from Spotify.

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Chatter of the week

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News of the week

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• Jeff Brewer has passed
  • Intuit CNCF case study

Links from the interview

• Spotify engineering culture
• Microservices at Spotify
• Backstage
  • Open source launch
  • How Spotify uses Backstage
  • GitHub repository
• Golden Paths
• Kubernetes plugin announcement
• Episode 50, with David Xia
• Donation to CNCF Sandbox
• Some backstage stories with David Pait in episode 127
• Lee Mills and Matt Clarke on Twitter