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All about the Backstage community (Meetups, Sessions etc.)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/backstage/community
- Owner: backstage
- Created: 2021-02-02T10:54:49.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-04-30T09:50:47.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-02T04:18:08.736Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: backstage
- Homepage: https://backstage.io
- Size: 285 KB
- Stars: 262
- Watchers: 70
- Forks: 25
- Open Issues: 11
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
- Governance: GOVERNANCE.md
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README
# Backstage Community
Welcome to the [Backstage](https://github.com/backstage/backstage) community!
Here you will find ways to engage with the community — join meetups, sign up for newsletters, catch up on podcasts, talks, and so many other things happening around Backstage.
For support or more immediate technical discussions, join us in [Discord](https://discord.gg/MUpMjP2).
## Meetups
**Backstage Community Sessions, hosted by Spotify**
- Join monthly meetups organized by the Backstage core team and contributors
- [View upcoming agendas, notes, and archives](backstage-community-sessions)
- [View Google calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/[email protected]) (Click + to add)**Backstage Users Unconference, hosted by Roadie and Frontside**
*Inactive since March 2022*
[Backstage Users Unconference](https://hopin.com/events/backstage-users-unconference-mar-22) is a quarterly get-together of users sharing their experiences working with Backstage in their teams and insights about the ecosystem's plugins. Show up and suggest topics on the day.
## Newsletters
- [Official newsletter by Spotify](https://info.backstage.spotify.com/newsletter_subscribe)
- [Backstage Weekly by Roadie.io](https://roadie.io/backstage-weekly/)## Podcasts
- [The Stack Overflow Podcast: Hypergrowth headaches (Ep. 485)](https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/09/16/hypergrowth-headaches-ep-485/)
- [NerdOut@Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/5eXZwvvxt3K2dxha3BSaAe) - Backstage miniseries
- [Episode 01: What is Backstage?](https://open.spotify.com/episode/43cbJh4ccRD7lzM2730YK3)
- [Episode 02: Open Issues](https://open.spotify.com/episode/332yTwGiILGKTS7dsHCj2P)
- [Episode 03: Community Builders](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3JdT4c2IazDDBsuGGf0sOE)
- [Episode 04: Backstage in the Wild](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3du4xUEwjKIj87F2NO8jNl) (featuring Netflix and American Airlines)
- [ThoughtWorks: "Making developer effectiveness a reality"](https://www.thoughtworks.com/podcasts/developer-effectiveness)
- [Spotify: A Product Story, Episode 08: “When to build vs buy — and when to open source”](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7iuQ3ew1Wwpuiq6LbBKzCl)
- [The Kubelist Podcast, Episode #11: "Backstage with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke of Spotify"](https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-kubelist-podcast/ep-11-backstage-with-lee-mills-and-matt-clarke-of-spotify/)
- [Kubernetes Podcast from Google, Episode 136: "Backstage Kubernetes"](https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/136-backstage/)
- [Software Engineering Daily: "Backstage: Spotify Developer Portals"](https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/11/19/backstage-spotify-developer-portals-with-stefan-alund/)
- [Technology Radar, Vol. 23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUTSnAutoAM&t=1176)
- [Changelog, Episode 415: "Spotify's open platform for shipping at scale"](https://changelog.com/podcast/415)
- [QuintoCast: "Tornando a Engenharia do QuintoAndar navegável"](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5VUnjZGGIHBqiD8HHKHyd0?si=adcc7b390dbf45ef) (PT-BR)
- [Implementing a developer portal - The Engineering Enablement Podcast - DX](https://getdx.com/podcast/developer-portal)
- [Front End Happy Hour - Backstage - Behind the bar](https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/backstage-behind-the-bar/)## Talks
- [The Good Guy: Platform Engineering Series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGVPcLSzJXQos1O18dvKoW2XSczz2I2lH)
- [Stack Overflow Webinar: Using developer portals to enhance developer happiness (and productivity)](https://resources.stackoverflow.co/topic/productivity-tips/backstage-internal-developer-portal-webinar/)
- [Productivity Engineering Silicon Valley: "Developer Portals and Platforms" Panel Discussion with Spotify, Lyft, PayPal, and Netflix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajN9-dWSVYs)
- [KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021](https://kccnceu2021.sched.com/event/iE4G/techdocs-unlocking-the-potential-of-engineers-collective-knowledge-emma-indal-spotify): ["TechDocs: Unlocking the Potential of Engineers' Collective Knowledge"](https://youtu.be/aIURaocR5D8) (video)
- [Reddit AMA on r/kubernetes](https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/lwb31v/were_the_engineers_rethinking_kubernetes_at/)
- [All Things Open 2020: "Backstage.io: Spotify's platform developer experience"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FR0G0XRDMA)
- [QuintoAndar Tech Talks: "Como desenvolvemos o developer portal usando o Backstage.io"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y57gUwb1v3g) (PT-BR)## Case Studies
- [American Airlines Runway, Part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZFdHmM5-7M) / [Part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2uEhK0T8MY) - CantonCoders: The Developer Experience @ American Airlines driven by Spotify Backstage
- [Expedia Group MVP](https://roadie.io/case-studies/expedia-group-backstage-mvp/) - How Expedia Group defined their Backstage vision and success metrics and built a Backstage MVP to satisfy them.
- [Lunar Bank](https://roadie.io/case-studies/lunar-backstage-adoption/) - Adopting Backstage into a 40 person engineering team.## Blogs
- [I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free - Stack Overflow Blog](https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/09/19/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-do-what-backstage-does-for-free/)
- [Combining Incident Management and Service Catalogs - Rootly](https://rootly.com/changelog/2022-06-23-backstage-integration/)
- [Runway - The Developer Experience Product @ American Airlines](https://tech.aa.com/2021-12-21-runway-pt1/)
- [Backstage Adoption at Brex - Brex Tech Blog](https://medium.com/brexeng/backstage-adoption-at-brex-b415e0e7d3a6)
- [Backstage by Spotify - The Ultimate Guide](https://roadie.io/backstage-spotify/)
- [How we are improving developer experience at QuintoAndar with backstage.io - QuintoAndar Tech Blog](https://medium.com/quintoandar-tech-blog/how-we-are-improving-developer-experience-at-quintoandar-with-backstage-io-fa1ab70b75cb)
- [How we are creating a knowledge base on QuintoAndar with an Open Source Q&A plugin on Backstage - QuintoAndar Tech Blog](https://medium.com/quintoandar-tech-blog/how-we-are-creating-a-knowledge-base-on-quintoandar-with-an-open-source-q-a-plugin-on-backstage-279faf4d6f61)
- [Relieve Developers' churn in your Cloud Native strategy with Backstage](https://frontside.com/blog/2021-05-14-avoid-cloud-native-churn-with-backstage/)
- [Building a Developer Portal with Backstage - SDA SE (Part 1)](https://medium.com/sda-se/building-a-developer-portal-with-backstage-part-1-c4602ee59260) / [Part 2](https://medium.com/sda-se/building-a-developer-portal-with-backstage-part-2-99537068f4ed)
- [A Developer's Perspective: Lessons from Open Source with FireHydrant and Backstage - FireHydrant.io](https://firehydrant.io/blog/a-developers-perspective-lessons-from-open-source/)
- [Integrating Backstage at DAZN - DAZN Engineering](https://medium.com/dazn-tech/integrating-backstage-at-dazn-b8ef5268b347)
- [How 5 companies got their developers to care about cloud costs - InfoWorld](https://www.infoworld.com/article/3623709/how-5-companies-got-their-developers-to-care-about-cloud-costs.html)
- [A Product Story: The Lessons of Backstage and Spotify’s Autonomous Culture - Spotify Engineering](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/05/18/a-product-story-the-lessons-of-backstage-and-spotifys-autonomous-culture/)
- [Shifting cost optimisation left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights - RedMonk](https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2021/04/28/shifting-cost-optimisation-left-spotify-backstage-cost-insights/)
- [A RedMonk Conversation: Shifting cost optimisation left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights](https://redmonk.com/videos/a-redmonk-conversation-shifting-cost-optimisation-left-spotify-backstage-cost-insights/) (video)
- [What is cloud cost optimization? How to manage cloud costs with Spotify Backstage](https://redmonk.com/videos/what-is-cloud-cost-optimization-how-to-manage-cloud-costs-with-spotify-backstage/) (video)
- [Technology Radar, Vol. 24: Platforms](https://assets.thoughtworks.com/assets/technology-radar-vol-24-en.pdf), [Backstage blip - ThoughtWorks](https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/platforms?blipid=202010066)
- [Optimizing micro-feedback loops in engineering - LeadDev](https://leaddev.com/productivity-eng-velocity/optimizing-micro-feedback-loops-engineering)
- [Backstage integration with the Snyk API - Snyk Blog](https://snyk.io/blog/backstage-integration-with-the-snyk-api/)
- [Happy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast - Spotify Engineering](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/03/16/happy-birthday-backstage-spotifys-biggest-open-source-project-grows-up-fast/)
- [How Spotify Leverages Paved Paths and Common Tooling to Improve Productivity - InfoQ](https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/03/spotify-paved-paths/)
- [Design a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers - The New Stack](https://thenewstack.io/design-a-better-kubernetes-experience-for-developers/)
- [Maximizing Developer Effectiveness - martinfowler.com](https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.html)
- [Showcase - Material-UI](https://material-ui.com/discover-more/showcase/)
- [Backstage and TechDocs - docslikecode.com](https://www.docslikecode.com/articles/ten-tips-maintaining-long-term-docs-like-code)
- [Build better developer portals with Spotify’s Backstage - LogRocket](https://blog.logrocket.com/better-developer-portals-spotify-backstage/)
- [Fk-covid: A Kubernetes Bundle for Inferencing COVID X-Rays with Machine Learning - Weaveworks](https://www.weave.works/blog/firekube-covid-ml)
- [How we use Backstage at Spotify - Spotify Engineering](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/04/21/how-we-use-backstage-at-spotify/)
- [What the Heck is Backstage Anyway - Spotify Engineering](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/03/17/what-the-heck-is-backstage-anyway/)
- [Muito prazer, Backstage.io uma nova forma de criar portais para times de desenvolvimento](https://medium.com/@_gdantas/muito-prazer-backstage-io-uma-nova-forma-de-criar-portais-para-times-de-desenvolvimento-3a4c744c85ca) (PT-BR)
- [Backstage and Terraform — A Powerful Combination for Ops, Wonderful for Devs](https://medium.com/@_gdantas/backstage-and-terraform-a-powerful-combination-for-ops-wonderful-for-devs-c04ebce849f0)
- [Backstage e Terraform — Uma combinação poderosa para Ops, maravilhosa para Devs](https://medium.com/@_gdantas/backstage-e-terraform-uma-combina%C3%A7%C3%A3o-poderosa-para-ops-maravilhosa-para-devs-4c25070045cc) (PT-BR)
- [Welcome to Backstage!](https://drodil.medium.com/welcome-to-backstage-a51f853ec1cd)
- [Writing Backstage Plugins](https://betterprogramming.pub/writing-backstage-plugins-a6bb1283f42)
- [Building Backstage Catalog Providers](https://betterprogramming.pub/building-backstage-catalog-providers-9c144b2e6e7b)
- [Processing Backstage Entities](https://drodil.medium.com/processing-backstage-entities-48dbee26bb54)
- [Implementing Backstage Search Collator](https://drodil.medium.com/implementing-backstage-search-collator-112cd9433815)
- [Sunrise: Zalando's developer platform based on Backstage - lessons learned](https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2023/08/sunrise-zalandos-developer-platform-based-on-backstage.html)
- [Avoiding Pitfalls With Backstage Catalog](https://medium.com/@drodil/avoiding-pitfalls-with-backstage-catalog-209118cebaf2?sk=363c2788a2d0fc8b0e34fb3ac40cb069)
- [Going Backstage with OPA](https://www.styra.com/blog/going-backstage-with-opa/)You are welcome to add new links here! "Watch" the repository for any future updates.