March 25, 2025
An Insider’s Tips for Taking the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Exam
TL;DR There’s a brand new engineering certification in town: Certified [...]
Published by André WanlinBackstage
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April 30, 2024Supercharged Developer Portals
Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source framework for building IDPs.
Published by Pia Nilsson, Senior Director of Engineering, Platform Developer Experience -
November 8, 2023Spotify Wins CNCF Top End User Award for the Second Time!
This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that Spotify won their Top End User Award.
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer & CNCF Technical Oversight Committee Representative -
December 15, 2022Shipping Spotify’s Culture: 5 Plugins (and 4 Principles) for Supercharging Developer Experience at Scale
ICYMI Spotify officially began selling enterprise software today: the Spotify [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms -
November 8, 2022Spotify’s Vulnerability Management Platform
We started developing our vulnerability management platform (VMP) at Spotify [...]
Published by Yukio Mizuta (Sr. Backend Engineer) and Nurit Izrailov (Software Engineer) -
March 9, 2022Chantal Delfeld: Engineer
7:00am My early mornings are spent running about after my [...]
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September 23, 2021How Backstage Made Our Developers More Effective — And How It Can Help Yours, Too
What’s the best way to assess your developers’ experience and [...]
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May 18, 2021A Product Story: The Lessons of Backstage and Spotify’s Autonomous Culture
TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “Spotify: A [...]
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May 11, 2021Spotify Wins CNCF’s Top End User Award and Toots Own Horn About It
Last week, Spotify won an award — and we’re not [...]
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer & CNCF Technical Oversight Committee Representative -
March 16, 2021Happy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our [...]
Published by Tyson Singer -
March 1, 2021Designing a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers
TLDR; If you’re deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn’t [...]
Published by Matthew Clarke, Senior Engineer -
September 29, 2020Managing Clouds from the Ground Up: Cost Engineering at Spotify
Like many of those in tech, we invest heavily in [...]
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September 24, 2020Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Backstage as a Sandbox Project
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your [...]
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August 17, 2020How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures [...]
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April 21, 2020How We Use Backstage at Spotify
Backstage is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally [...]
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March 17, 2020What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
