Re:I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free
by combustilin on Friday September 23, 2022 @02:37AM
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Indeed, Backstage is a framework for creating a developer portal, not a ready-made product.
I used to work on a consultancy (https://frontside.com) who's specializing in adopting Backstage at Fortune 500s like HP. When you adopt Backstage at scale, you rely on processors that scan your LDAP, GitHub, etc to discover, stitch, and feed cohesive data to the software catalog. HP is giving a talk next month on how they manage 100,000+ entities in Backstage.
Backstage does a lot of heavy lifting that I'd rather use than have to build from scratch.
I used to work on a consultancy (https://frontside.com) who's specializing in adopting Backstage at Fortune 500s like HP. When you adopt Backstage at scale, you rely on processors that scan your LDAP, GitHub, etc to discover, stitch, and feed cohesive data to the software catalog. HP is giving a talk next month on how they manage 100,000+ entities in Backstage.
Backstage does a lot of heavy lifting that I'd rather use than have to build from scratch.