Shifting Spotify Engineering from Spreadsheets to Backstage

Discover how Spotify transformed its engineering infrastructure in this 27-minute conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Learn about the journey from using spreadsheets and fragmented tools to implementing Backstage, an internal developer portal that streamlined Spotify's entire engineering organization. Explore the creation of a service catalog for managing thousands of microservices, which evolved into a comprehensive platform supporting machine learning models, documentation, and over 9,000 data pipelines. Gain insights into Backstage's open-source transition and its donation to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Understand strategies for adopting Backstage in existing organizations and learn how to bootstrap your own catalog to bring order to complex engineering ecosystems.