Today we’re announcing the launch of the State of Backstage survey! 🥳🎉
Backstage has grown, diversified and differentiated a lot since it was open sourced back in 2020.
We have new features, new patterns of adoption, and many, many new members of the Backstage community.
One downside for having a sprawling community of business adopting Backstage is that we often don’t have much insight into how it is actually being used. Organisations tend to keep that information close to their chest.
There are some exceptions and some information is in the public domain to help new adopters and those who are looking to super-charge their instance. For instance, case studies are extremely useful for spreading the word about patterns of adoption. The Backstage Discord channels is great for questions about individual features and plugin adoption. Consultants and SaaS providers like Roadie are good for seeing a wider subset of good patterns.
Yet even commulative, all of these channels mean that information is fragment and the flow of information and knowledge is inconsistent.
We lack a systematic and widespread data capture mechanism to ping the community for its current state.
That’s why we’re launching the 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, on the state of backstage.io site.
It aims to provide a general map of the community and an understanding of its current state.
A novice Backstage user, new to the community, maybe even standing up Backstage for the first time, should be able to understand at a glance understand current best practice, plugin adoption, and patterns that are working for organisations successfully adopting backstage.
Check it out (and fill it in) at stateofbackstage.io!