Stefan Ålund
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* Documentation skeleton * Added ADR list and more * rm material theme * Update mkdocs.yml * Add docs TOC * Work for plain MD and mkdocs * Update mkdocs.yml * Restructuring * Added roadmap * Add reference APIs * move publishing
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Backstage
What is Backstage?
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. It’s based on the developer portal we’ve been using internally at Spotify for over four years. Backstage can be as simple as a services catalog or as powerful as the UX layer for your entire tech infrastructure.
For more information go to backstage.io or join our Discord chatroom.
Features
- Create and manage all of your organization’s software and microservices in one place.
- Services catalog keeps track of all software and its ownership.
- Visualizations provide information about your backend services and tooling, and help you monitor them.
- A unified method for managing microservices offers both visibility and control.
- Preset templates allow engineers to quickly create microservices in a standardized way (coming soon).
- Centralized, full-featured technical documentation with integrated tooling that makes it easy for developers to set up, publish, and maintain alongside their code (coming soon).
Benefits
- For engineering managers, it allows you to maintain standards and best practices across the organization, and can help you manage your whole tech ecosystem, from migrations to test certification.
- For end users (developers), it makes it fast and simple to build software components in a standardized way, and it provides a central place to manage all projects and documentation.
- For platform engineers, it enables extensibility and scalability by letting you easily integrate new tools and services (via plugins), as well as extending the functionality of existing ones.
- For everyone, it’s a single, consistent experience that ties all your infrastructure tooling, resources, standards, owners, contributors, and administrators together in one place.