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All about the Backstage community

Backstage Community

Welcome to the Backstage community!

Here you will find ways to engage with the community — join meetups, sign up for newsletters, catch up on podcasts, talks, and so many other things happening around Backstage.

For support or more immediate technical discussions, join us in Discord.

Meetups

Backstage Community Sessions, hosted by Spotify

• Join monthly meetups organized by the Backstage core team and contributors
• View upcoming agendas, notes, and archives
• View Google calendar (Click + to add)

Backstage Open Mic, hosted by Frontside

Open Mic is a monthly get-together of users sharing their experiences working with Backstage in their teams and insights about the ecosystem's plugins.

Newsletters

• Official newsletter by Spotify
• Backstage Weekly by Roadie.io

Podcasts

• The Kubelist Podcast, Episode #11: Backstage with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke of Spotify
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google, Episode 136: Backstage Kubernetes
• Software Engineering Daily: "Backstage: Spotify Developer Portals"
• Technology Radar, Vol. 23
• Changelog, Episode 415: "Spotify's open platform for shipping at scale"

Talks

• Reddit AMA on r/kubernetes
• All Things Open 2020

Case Studies

• Expedia Group MVP - How Expedia Group defined their Backstage vision and success metrics and built a Backstage MVP to satisfy them.

Blogs

• Shifting cost optimisation left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights - RedMonk
  • A RedMonk Conversation: Shifting cost optimisation left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights (video)
  • What is cloud cost optimization? How to manage cloud costs with Spotify Backstage (video)
• Technology Radar, Vol. 24: Platforms, Backstage blip - ThoughtWorks
• Optimizing micro-feedback loops in engineering - LeadDev
• Backstage integration with the Snyk API - Snyk Blog
• How Spotify Leverages Paved Paths and Common Tooling to Improve Productivity - InfoQ
• Design a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers - The New Stack
• Maximizing Developer Effectiveness - martinfowler.com
• Showcase - Material-UI
• Backstage and TechDocs - docslikecode.com
• Build better developer portals with Spotify’s Backstage - LogRocket
• Fk-covid: A Kubernetes Bundle for Inferencing COVID X-Rays with Machine Learning - Weaveworks
• How we use Backstage at Spotify - Spotify Engineering
• What the Heck is Backstage Anyway - Spotify Engineering

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