Roadie Local is coming, State of Backstage launches, and Announcements lands

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The latest features and updates from Roadie.

πŸ’ˆ Roadie Local [coming soon]

We're going on-prem.

We've been toying with this idea for a long-time and we've decided to go all-in on enabling Roadie to be run on customer infrastructure.

We call it Roadie Local.

More soon - we're aiming for a beta launch in March, moving to general availability in Q2 2025.

πŸ’ˆ State of Backstage launches

We're also launching a survey.

When a community reaches a certain level of maturity getting a good lay of the land each year becomes a good idea. Backstage has hit that point - maybe we're even a little late to realise it - so we thought it was time to launch an annual State of Backstage survey.

This is a non-commercial activity for us. It’s solely to foster a greater sense of community and information sharing.

We’ll publish the report from this survey in Spring 2025 for free (of course).

Check it out on the state of backstage.io site.

πŸ”Œ Plugins & Integrations roundup

  • Announcements plugin: we pulled in the Announcements plugin to give customers the ability to post updates and requests to their userbase within Roadie. It's a plugin that's been around for some time, but it's developed markedly in the last year or so so we thought it was time. Enjoy!

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