# Roadie mentioned in The Pragmatic Engineer 

*Published: March 21, 2023 | Author: Jorge Lainfiesta*

At a readership of 160k+ tech professionals, The Pragmatic Engineer has received a lot of praise from the enterprise software and scale-ups industry. For their column on Backstage, the Roadie team had the opportunity of contributing our experiences with Gergely Orosz. The outcome of Gergely’s research is truly a deep-dive pillar that explains how Backstage came to be, its different features, adoption stories, and many other aspects of the framework.

If you’re a Pragmatic Engineer subscriber, make sure not to miss out on this one. Gergely goes through what a Developer Portal is, how to get started, and even compares closed-sourced alternatives. [Check it out](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/backstage)!

[![Backstage on The Pragmatic Engineer: a deep dive](//images.ctfassets.net/hcqpbvoqhwhm/2swufT3sFagjKZZ44sPH3x/8febbce5a2df79fc8bbdffb299abd7fb/Screenshot_2023-03-07_at_14.30.32.png)](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/backstage)

[Martina Iglesias Fernández](https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-iglesias-fernandez/), CTO of Roadie, saw the inception of Backstage from within Spotify and shared her story with The Pragmatic Engineer. At the time, she was a lead backend engineer at Spotify, where she saw the pain points that derived the need for an Internal Developer Portal. In the column, she explains in detail how Backstage [came from an internal tool called System-Z](https://roadie.io/backstage-spotify/#the-origins-of-spotify-backstage).
![Screenshot: System-Z](//images.ctfassets.net/hcqpbvoqhwhm/8l0hLorPPGV8LwsChxO43/afe483a516a0c1e9a49948aa68a120fb/system-z.png)

The Roadie team shared other experiences with Gergely, including information about Backstage’s main features and the typical adoption process from MVP to org-wide release.