Adopting Backstage - Documentation and Support
Backstage a smoother experience for your team and boost adoption by creating effective internal getting started documentation and support channels.
Sam Blausten
How to Define Engineering Standards
Engineering standards ensure consistency, reliability, and quality across projects and teams. Defining these standards can be tricky, but that is only half the battle. To make them effective standards must be adhered to. They need to be broken down into bitesized, actionable chunks.
Sam Nixon
Easier Relationship Mapping in the Backstage Catalog
How to make adding relationships between entities easier for everyone in the Backstage catalog.
Improving Backstage performance (by up to 48x)
Unlock the full potential of Backstage with our guide to optimizing its Catalog performance. Whether you're building a custom internal developer portal or scaling your Backstage deployment, this article provides the crucial insights you need to avoid common performance pitfalls.
Brian Fletcher
Achieving immediate catalog updates via the UI in Backstage
How to make editing entries in your Backstage catalog painless and quick, and unlock large scale scripted updates via API.
How to customize Backstage Kinds and Types without getting in trouble
Exploring some of the categorisation issues organisations may come up against when trying to add new entities to the Backstage catalog, and possible solutions.
Scaling Backstage
The Backstage developer portal is an excellent tool for platform teams, as well as engineers, to keep a handle on their software, maintain compliance statuses and spin up new services. Unfortunately the open source Backstage is known for its difficult set up time and overall cumbersome maintainability. There are multiple challenges that arise when the volume of data in the Backstage grows to 1,000s and 10,000s of entities, ranging from performance to ease of use.
Jussi Hallila
