How to bring your content to Backstage Search — Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals that includes powerful search functionality. The search can utilize multiple different engines in the backend, such as ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, and Postgres. Items you can search for are provided by components called search collators and in this blog post, we are going…

How to enrich catalog entities with Processors — Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals that can be easily extended to your needs by the power of entity processors. Entity processing in Backstage is done after the entity has been created by an entity provider. I recommend you first introduce yourself with the Backstage documentation about…

Enriching your catalog with new entities — Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals that can be easily extended to your needs by the power of catalog providers. While Backstage offers many providers out of the box, sometimes you need to integrate some internal system as part of the developer portal. This can be, for…

How to develop new features for Backstage — Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals that can be easily extended to your needs by the power of plugins. Plugins are divided into two categories, frontend and backend plugins. …

From Spotify, for all developers, with ❤️ — Spotify’s Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals written in NodeJS and React. It is open-source, has many features built-in, and is easily extendible with 3rd party or in-house plugins. But what does it contain, how can you develop it and why would you need it? Main features Backstage comes…

A story about technology debt and how to fight it Imagine it’s the year 2002 again. You just got a massive pile of money from angel investors and are about to start a new company. In the time of the digital revolution, when software seems to be the key to…

It’s only good in small doses — It has been crazy couple of years for the whole planet. When the COVID hit us the first time, almost everything closed, the stock market plummeted and people were hoarding toilet paper without any clue what was to come. …

The whole industry is a mess — It has been 7 years of driving our Skoda Octavia 2.0 TDI 4x4. We bought the car almost as new and it has served it’s time very well. No big problems and overall it has been a very good car. …

Why software development has turned into integration? — Last week, we had a coffee with my friend and we were talking about our jobs as we both work in the software industry. One of the themes was that it has become more boring than it used to be and we quickly identified the reason: it doesn’t feel so…