7h ago · 13 min read · Every "Backstage alternatives" roundup lists the same five portals. None of them asks the question that decides which alternative is right: what job sent you looking in the first place? A senior plat
Join discussionMay 28 · 9 min read · Platform engineering is undergoing a tectonic shift. The first transformation was infrastructure automation.The second was DevOps and CI/CD standardisation.The third was Kubernetes and GitOps. The fou
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Mar 11 · 5 min read · The Facade Is the Product There's a question that comes up in almost every platform team at some point: Should we expose Kubernetes directly to developers, or should we abstract it? It sounds like a tooling debate. Backstage vs. raw manifests. Helm c...
Join discussionMar 9 · 5 min read · Your Platform Provisions Environments. That's a Factory. Every platform team eventually faces the same request, over and over again. A developer needs a new environment — staging, a feature branch, a sandbox for testing. They open a ticket, fill out ...
Join discussionMar 3 · 10 min read · Developer Portals and Documentation Platforms: IDPs vs Good Docs There is a pattern that repeats across growing engineering organizations. Developers cannot find documentation. They do not know which team owns a service. They cannot figure out how to...
Join discussionOct 17, 2025 · 5 min read · This guide will walk you through setting up a local Kubernetes cluster with Colima, preparing a Backstage application, and deploying it using Helm. Part 1: Setting Up the Local Kubernetes Cluster First, we'll install Colima and use it to create a lig...
Join discussionApr 9, 2025 · 4 min read · Backstage is an open-source framework used to make a developer portal that brings together different tools, services, and documents to build an Internal Development Platform (IDP). It acts as a central place where developers can find everything they ...
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Feb 24, 2025 · 4 min read · Backstage: What is it? Backstage is an open-source developer portal developed by Spotify to consolidate all developer tools, services, and documentation together in one place. It simplifies development workflows by providing a single platform to mana...
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Jul 19, 2024 · 9 min read · Recently I have been working with https://backstage.io/ , specifically the Backstage Software Templates feature I noticed a few things and learned a lot of things too Here are some short notes 🗒️ 📝 on what I noticed and also what I learned Great D...
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Jul 10, 2023 · 11 min read · In my previous article, we looked at platform engineering: what it is, how it became a thing, platform engineering vs. DevOps, and how it could help improve security. If you haven't read it yet, here it is: Platform Engineering and Security: A Very S...
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