TL;DR: As part of our efforts to streamline service management and improve developer experience, our engineering org migrated from a legacy service catalogue to the Backstage Software Catalog. In this post, I'll share what we learned from that journey --- including how to build an automated script to migrate services from an existing internal service catalogue to a modern internal developer portal (IDP) like Backstage. I'll also outline strategies to help drive adoption across your organizati...| Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog
My path to becoming a maintainer in the Backstage project wasn’t paved with years of prior open source experience. As a student interning at Red Hat, I started with a relatively fresh perspective. This is the story of that journey – how I navigated the complexities of Backstage, with the support of its community, allowing me to grow and learn, and how open source can empower anyone to do the same. Whether you’re new to open source or a seasoned developer, I believe you’ll find somethi...| Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog
Highlights from BackstageCon and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, including scenes from London and links to recordings of all the Backstage sessions.| Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog
Bowie the Backstage Beaver in an astronaut outfit riding a firecracker surrounded by fireworks exploding with stats: 210+ open source plugins, 1.6k contributors, 60k total contributions| Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog
TL;DR Backstage’s security posture remains strong! Today, we’re releasing the report from the second independent security audit of the Backstage project.| Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog
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TL;DR There is no shortage of content that discusses the benefits that Backstage brings to organizations (and if you want to read more on that, you can just click here, here, or here). But I want to share what it did for me, a developer here at Spotify. And not just what it did, but how I’ve used Backstage to help me achieve goals at each stage of my journey at Spotify — from my first day as a brand new employee to today, my 1,186th day as a contributor.| Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog
tl;dr: We've set up the new community plugins repository, and have migrated most of the packages in the plugins directory of the main Backstage repository to their new home!| Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog
tl;dr: And with that the first BackstageCon Europe comes to an end! The City of Light was good to Backstage with many great conversations at both BackstageCon and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024. If you weren't able to join, the CNCF has a great playlist of all the BackstageCon talks ready to go on YouTube. Check out some of the highlights below — then grab your popcorn and settle in!| Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog
TL;DR: For the Backstage maintainers, ensuring that the project is secure for every adopter and end user is one of our top priorities.| Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog
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TL;DR: For the Backstage maintainers, ensuring that the project is highly secure for every adopter and end-user is one of our top priorities. With the recent vulnerabilities in the vm2 sandbox we have decided to move away from vm2 and use isolated-vm instead, in order to ensure the security of the Backstage end-users.| backstage.io
This blog post is co-authored by Emma White (@ewhite1997), Spotify.| backstage.io
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