Backstage Weekly 99 - Backstage LinkedIn, Cost Management
By Sam Nixon • October 8th, 2024👋 Backstage Weekly 99! We’re a mere hop, skip and jump away from the big 100.
This week:
- New community starting: Backstage LinkedIn
- New article: Backstage & Cost Management
- Project updates: Roadie is now on v1.30
A new LinkedIn page just for Backstage
CNCF projects like Backstage tend to have a LinkedIn group managed by maintainers and contributors. Backstage had a Backstage from Spotify page but that’s part of commercial effort by Spotify rather than a community page.
To fix this core maintainers (including Spotify) and Roadie have teamed up to start a new non-commercial page to share Backstage stories and celebrate community activity.
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Backstage and Shifting Cloud Costs Left
Visualising cost data inside your internal developer portal has come a long way in the last 12 months. From FinOps conferences to AWS launching a more feature-rich Cost Explorer, managing costs is more mature (and more buzzy). Backstage has had the Cost Insights plugin since the very beginning (we even wrote about it back in Backstage Weekly #4), but without an aggregation point or database to store cost data before it is sent the plugin adoption has been limited.
We’ve thought a lot about how we can make Cost Insights easier to adopt for all of our customers (and the OSS community) and we have a plan.
We’ll be looking for a design partner shortly. Email [email protected] if you’re interested.
Roadie is now on v1.30
It took us a little while to catchup to our usual cadence after the New Backend upgrade last month, but we’re back on our usual cadence of being ~1 version behind the OSS project (to allow that version to settle).
That means, amongst other things:
- Notifications is a capability Roadie now has 🎉 - you won’t see this in the UI at the moment, but we’ll have more on it as plugins adopt the Notifications framework (including our very own Tech Insights plugin).
- New relationships, like subDomainOf
- Read the v1.27 - v1.30 release notes for more info.