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.