Building a state-of-the-art development platform with Backstage (opens in new tab)

Key takeaways Backstage solved the portal problem, not the platform problem. A portal organizes catalogs, documentation, and templates. A platform owns deployments, environments, policies, and runtime operations. Backstage assumes that the execution layer exists beneath it. Point-to-point integrations become a maintenance burden. Many organizations end up with a “messy middle” where Backstage is connected directly to Abstractions are the interface between developers and infrastructure. Develo...