Backstage is a platform for building developer portals, powered by a centralized service catalog. It was built at Spotify and both open sourced and donated to the CNCF in 2020. A Kubernetes plugin was recently added. We talk to maintainers Lee Mills and Matt Clarke from Spotify.

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Chatter of the week

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Vitess 9
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Announcing the Linkerd steering committee
The State of Cloud Native Release Orchestration; a report from Vamp
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- Episode 39, with Dan Lorenc
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Debugging CrashLoopBackOff by David Giffin from Release
Jeff Brewer has passed
- Intuit CNCF case study

Links from the interview

Spotify engineering culture
Microservices at Spotify
Backstage
Golden Paths
Kubernetes plugin announcement
Episode 50, with David Xia
Donation to CNCF Sandbox
Some backstage stories with David Pait in episode 127
Lee Mills and Matt Clarke on Twitter

Backstage, with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke

Kubernetes Podcast from Google