Roadie BTS: Running Backstage at Scale
Backstage is powerful, but like any application, keeping it stable at scale can be a challenge. Memory leaks, unnecessary restarts, and background jobs interfering with performance can slowly erode reliability - until they become major headaches. At Roadie, we’ve been making deep, structural improvements to eliminate these issues, ensuring a smoother, more resilient experience for platform teams. Here’s how the Roadie engineering team tackled hidden performance pitfalls and made Backstage run better than ever.