Backstage Courses and Certifications

Improving Developer Experience with Backstage

Explore how Backstage, an open platform for developer portals, addresses modern challenges in software development, enhancing collaboration, onboarding, and overall developer happiness.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Build Your Own Heroku with Cloud Native Stack - Tutorial

Learn to build a customizable Heroku-like platform using cloud-native tools like Backstage and Crossplane, tailored to your organization's evolving needs and use cases.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Backstage - Shaping the Future of Developer Experience

Explore Backstage, an open-source platform for building developer portals. Learn how it streamlines onboarding, centralizes documentation, and enhances developer experience in complex tech ecosystems.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Cloud Native - From Zero to Production with Krateo PlatformOps

Explore Krateo PlatformOps: Rapidly deploy cloud-native applications with efficient onboarding, customizable templates, and seamless integration of Kubernetes and Backstage plugins.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

From Zero to Production with Krateo PlatformOps in Less Than One Hour

Explore PlatformOps and Backstage for efficient software delivery, including plugins, templates, and best practices for cloud-native development and deployment.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Backstage - Restoring Order to Your Chaos

Explore Backstage, a customizable developer portal platform that simplifies onboarding, centralizes documentation, and streamlines development workflows for complex tech ecosystems.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Building Digital Twins for DFDS With Crossplane and Kubernetes

Explore how DFDS uses Kubernetes-based Digital Twins, Crossplane, and Backstage to manage logistics operations and accelerate software development in a decentralized, distributed environment.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

What is Tech Insights? Understanding and Implementing Backstage Features

Explore tech insights in Backstage: track engineering standards, visualize data, and extend functionality. Learn to manage tech health and drive company standards with practical examples.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Enabling Developer Experience Journey at U.S. Bank

Explore U.S. Bank's journey in enhancing developer experience through Backstage adoption, focusing on catalog, documentation, software templates, and homepage features to boost productivity and satisfaction.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

The Evolution of Backstage Backends

Explore Backstage backend's evolution, including improvements in development and deployment. Learn about scalable augmentable systems and TypeScript API design from Spotify's maintainers.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Bringing Data Visualization to Backstage: Software Analytics and Developer Insights

Explore software analytics visualization in Backstage, enhancing developer experience with insights from code repositories, issue trackers, and CI/CD pipelines using open-source tools and Vega.js.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

What We Learned During Our Journey in Using Backstage at DAZN

Insights on implementing Backstage at DAZN: technical challenges, software catalog population, plugin selection, and driving adoption among engineers. Strategies for overcoming obstacles and fostering contributions.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

How We Scaled Catalog Ingestion to Hundreds of Thousands of Entities

Explore HP Inc.'s innovative approach to scaling Backstage for large-scale entity ingestion, featuring extended functionality and optimized processing for enterprise-level data management.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Leading Architectural Change with Backstage

Strategies for scaling DevOps and architecture using Backstage and CNCF stack. Learn to balance innovation with stability during rapid growth, and implement efficient processes for service deployment.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Measuring Developer Happiness: Analytics for Backstage

Explore Backstage Analytics API for measuring engineering productivity. Learn to collect usage data, focus on key metrics, and surface useful insights for plugin developers and adopters.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video