What is Backstage? (Explainer Video)

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. We created it at Spotify and open sourced it during our Hack Week in March 2020. Since open sourcing it, Backstage has become a Sandbox project at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (home to Kubernetes and Envoy).

So, what exactly is a Backstage developer portal? And what magical properties does it possess?

For a developer, it can be the fastest way to create a new software component. For platform teams, it can be the easiest way to encourage best practices. For your entire engineering org, it can be the central nervous system for all your software, tooling, and documentation. Since it has the capability to do so many things, Backstage can be almost anything.

But all that sounds very broad and vague, and is not a very good answer. This two-minute video explains it much better. Watch it — and the next time someone asks, “What is Backstage?”, just point them right back here.

Learn more about Backstage — the open platform for building developer portals that reduces infrastructure chaos😤 and increases developer happiness🥰:

[valdezm_com]

Coolest background music I have ever heard in a Youtube video -- and it make sense it is a awesome tech product video!

[cullenmcclellan-tw]

Who produced that amazing song? Excited to give Backstage a go.

[valdezm_com]

<3 the music! Wish I could add it to my portfolio website :)

[surfernerd]

I lost it at the head banging animation, it's so dumb but so funny

[DenisFalqueto]

The music is cool, but that detuned synth is annoying me to no end...

[AbhayAR]

IS THERE ANY ONE WORKED IN BACKSTAGE? I NEED A HELP. IT WILL BE PAID