How to get an overview of your tech health (Tech Insights plugin) in Backstage (Demo)

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Managing software migrations: it’s no fun. Or maybe it can be? Instead of manually updating a spreadsheet — or worse yet, flying totally blind — what if you had a beautiful dashboard that could give you an instant, interactive picture of your entire org’s tech stack? That’s how we do it at Spotify. With our Tech Insights plugin for Backstage, anyone at Spotify can see which version of which software anyone else at Spotify is using — and a whole a lot more. From managing migrations to fighting tech entropy, Backstage makes managing our tech health actually kind of pleasant.

0:00 Tech migrations!
0:33 The old way
0:57 The Backstage way
1:40 Fighting tech entropy
2:07 The dangerous side effects of spreadsheets

Want to build your own plugin for Backstage? Get started here:
https://github.com/spotify/bac....kstage/blob/master/C

Learn what else you can build with Backstage on our blog:
https://backstage.io/blog/2020/03/18/what-is-backstage

What are these videos?
https://engineering.atspotify.....com/2020/04/21/how-w

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