Case Studies

Motability Operations: Building a Modern Developer Platform with Roadie

Motability Operations set out to improve visibility, ownership, and standardization across their engineering teams. They chose Roadie to build a developer portal that could scale with their ambitions, and then used an SCM migration as the catalyst to drive real platform maturity. Here’s how they turned a complex migration into a launchpad for standardization, automation, and developer self-service.

Maintenance to Momentum: Why Celonis Made the Switch from Self-Hosted Backstage to Roadie

Celonis had built real momentum with self-hosted Backstage, but maintaining and scaling it with a small team became a constant trade-off between upgrades and progress. They chose Roadie to keep what worked, skip what didn’t, and focus their energy on developer experience instead of infrastructure. Here’s how the switch unfolded - and what it’s enabling them to do now.

Dexcom: Automating Backstage Catalog Completeness with Roadie

Dexcom boosted their catalog completeness from 60% to over 95% by automating Backstage onboarding with a custom Python script, dramatically improving visibility and governance across their IT repos. Through smart tooling, Scaffolder enforcement, and Tech Insights reporting, they've built a scalable platform foundation without waiting for bottom-up adoption.

Improving software standards with Roadie

Uplight moved to Roadie in 2022 to help answer questions around software ownership. Now, not only can they can trivially answer those questions, but have also embedded reporting and scorecards to move the needle on software standardisation and improvement.

Growing and Governing an Internal Developer Portal in a Regulated business

Baillie Gifford moved to Roadie to solve problems around software ownership. Three years later they've completed their software catalog, can trivially answer questions about their software, and have moved to a system of decentralised ownership of their Roadie instance.

Transitioning from Self-Hosted Backstage to Roadie

After self-hosting Backstage for 4 years, Paddle recently moved to Roadie so that they can focus less on maintenance and more on driving change across their engineering organisation.

Velocity through hypergrowth with Roadie

Using the Backstage service catalog to maintain an InnerSourcing culture through rapid growth in engineering headcount. Contentful use Roadie Backstage to help drive a culture of ownership and production homogeneity.

Handling rapid growth with Backstage

Lunar used Backstage to onboard engineers faster and to create a truly self-service experience for their internal deployment platform.

Backstage at Expedia Group

Expedia Group recently rolled out Backstage company wide to more than 5,000 developers as their designated internal service catalog, API catalog, documentation library and developer portal.