September 16, 2022
When an organization hits a interval of hypergrowth, builders are in for a thrill trip. They should begin scaling their programs, transferring to service architectures and clouds, and trying to resolve issues others haven’t. However hypergrowth brings complications, too, and chief amongst them is the right way to preserve everybody conscious of what’s happening with groups that they aren’t part of.Â
When an organization hits a interval of hypergrowth, builders are in for a thrill trip. They should begin scaling their programs, transferring to service architectures and clouds, and trying to resolve issues others haven’t. However hypergrowth brings complications, too, and chief amongst them is the right way to preserve everybody conscious of what’s happening with groups that they aren’t part of.Â
When Spotify bumped into this hypergrowth downside, they created Backstage, an open-source framework for constructing developer portals. Ben and Ryan talked with Helen Gruel and Tim Hansen in regards to the genesis of the challenge, retaining docs with service info, and the way Backstage’s plugin ecosystem retains engineers from getting misplaced amongst dozens of instruments.Â
Episode notes
Like a variety of good instruments, Backstage began as a method to cease utilizing a spreadsheet. They knew it was one thing value open-sourcing when convention attendees paid extra consideration to the device than the subjects of the talks.Â
Backstage treats docs-like-code, retaining markdown information in the identical repo because the code. Down with wikis, up with pull requests!If you wish to study extra about Backstage, take a look at our latest webinar with Emma Indal, an online engineer at Spotify.
Tags: backstage, docs-like-code, open supply, spotify, the stack overflow podcast
