Backstage Weekly 43 - 4 Huge Milestones Achieved
4 big milestones were achieved in the past week. A birthday, a 1.0 release, 100 public adopters and CNCF Incubation.
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Backstage Weekly 42 - Tons of TechDocs improvements
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of activity around TechDocs. These changes make TechDocs more readable and easier to use.
Backstage Weekly 41 - The Ultimate Guide to Backstage
This week, we published a 2,000+ word, ultimate guide to Backstage. Plus, Spotify publish an awesome looking CI/CD statistics plugin.
Backstage Weekly 40 - The Backstage Unconference returns
The Backstage Users Unconference returns on March 3rd. Plus, we announce our Backstage Bites video series.
Backstage Weekly 39 - New Year, New Roadmap
It鈥檚 that time of year where we鈥檙e all making resolutions and Backstage is no different. The official roadmap has been updated to make the short term priorities clear.
Backstage Weekly 38 - Backstage by the numbers in 2021
6 numbers which sum up Backstage in 2021
Backstage Weekly 37 - Backstage for monorepos
Plus the latest great features released... a search modal and steps towards Tech Insights.
Backstage Weekly 36 - Backstage Unconference tomorrow!
Also, work has started on Tech Insights and TechDocs is now slightly easier to set up.
Backstage Weekly 35 - Join us at the first Backstage Unconference
A look at the upcoming Backstage events for your calendar. Plus, learn about the new Prometheus plugin, Bugsnag plugin and dependency mapping plugins.
Backstage Weekly 34 - The first ever Backstage job post?
Multiple companies demo their internal Backstage deployments and we round up the PRs merged in the past few weeks.
Backstage Weekly 33 - TechDocs search is here
Backstage now supports searching TechDocs in three different search engines. Learn about the pros and cons of each.
Backstage Weekly 32 - July community contributions recap
The Backstage maintainers were on summer vacation for the month of July, but this didn't stop the contributions from flowing. 200 pull requests were merged during this holiday month.
Backstage Weekly 29 - Search V1 release & easier plugin maintenance
Backstage search reaches the v1 alpha milestone and plugin maintenance is about to get a whole lot easier.
Backstage Weekly 28 - A guide to adopting Backstage
Plus... a recap of community session 4 and a look at the new Backstage catalog UI.
Backstage Weekly 27 - Expedia Case Study
Backstage Weekly 26 - Spotify's product story
Backstage Weekly 25 - View your org chart inside Backstage
How Spotify use Backstage to form a collective knowledge graph and control cloud costs.
Backstage Weekly 24 - Code coverage plugin and growing Backstage team
Code coverage plugin, use cases for security and compliance, and both the Spotify and Roadie teams are growing.
Backstage Weekly 23 - Plugin composability update
The last pieces are in place for the new Backstage plugin composability API. All the links you need are below. We also have a technical TechDocs deep dive. Try saying that 10 times fast!
Backstage Weekly 22 - Progress made on Backstage search
Search begins its migration to the backend, read only mode and some catalog importer improvements.
Backstage Weekly 21 - Spotify story - Why OSS Backstage succeeded
Backstage was announced 1 year ago. We look at how Spotify developed the internal skills required to launch Backstage to its current heights.
Backstage Weekly 20 - Upcoming meetups and Kubernetes CRD support
Heads up on two upcoming Backstage meetups and a roundup of the latest merged pull requests.
Backstage Weekly 19 - Custom actions for the scaffolder
The latest beta of the scaffolder opens up a world of potential for templating applications. We run through an example below.
Backstage Weekly 18 - How Spotify drove Backstage adoption
A recap of the first Backstage community session and a look at some new features which dropped last week.
Backstage Weekly 17 - Next steps for the scaffolder
A look at Spotify's plans for the scaffolder in the early part of 2021.
Backstage Weekly 16 - Upcoming Backstage community meetup 馃懐
Make sure you don't miss the first community meetup of 2021. Also, get a preview of an upcoming Roadie feature.
Backstage Weekly 15 - Happy 1 year anniversary to Backstage 馃巶
Three new plugins were launched in the last week. Plus, 3 great features have kicked off.
Backstage Weekly 14 - 3 high potential internal Backstage features
So much has happened in the year since Backstage was released. Let's look forward to see what the future might have in store.
Backstage Weekly 13 - Updated roadmap for 2021
A look forward at the Backstage roadmap in H1 2021 and backwards to the merges that happened in December.
Backstage Weekly 12 - Pagerduty plugin, Org plugin and external TechDocs storage
The Pagerduty plugin, API graphs and an update to the Sentry plugin also included.
Backstage Weekly 11 - TechDocs Production Architecture
When to use various TechDocs architectures and a look at their roadmap for the next 6 months. 馃洠
Backstage Weekly 10 - Easier service onboarding
Onboard your services to Backstage by using the GitHub repo importer that Roadie has developed and contributed.
Backstage Weekly 8 - The search for search is almost over
Lots of potential building up as we near year's end. The Backstage search plugin is nearly ready.
Backstage Weekly 7 - Open Governance
Backstage joins Kubernetes and other notable projects in adopting an open governance model. 馃
Backstage Weekly 6 - Backstage Kubernetes Plugin
The Backstage Kubernetes plguin - What it does and how it can help you.
Backstage Weekly 5 - Backstage for websites
The fifth edition of the Roadie Backstage Weekly newsletter. Tracking website performance over time with Backstage.
Backstage Weekly 4 - Cost Insights
The fourth edition of the Roadie Backstage Weekly newsletter. Managing cloud costs by shifting left with Backstage.
Backstage Weekly 3 - CNCF Sandbox
The third edition of the Roadie Backstage Weekly newsletter. Backstage has been donated to the CNCF.
Roadie Rundown 2 - New Backstage version released
The first edition of the Roadie Newsletter. The pieces are starting to come together.
Roadie Rundown 1 - Docs in Backstage
The first edition of the Roadie Newsletter. Find service documentation without NSA-level discovery skills.
