Engineering Productivity and Backstage

23/08/2021 47 min Temporada 2021 Episodio 90
Engineering Productivity and Backstage

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Engineering Productivity

With the growth of our engineering community, the need for more focus on engineering productivity is clear. We invited two experts to discuss this topic with us. We actually got to this point when one of our listeners pointed out one of the products we are using for this and how awesome a topic that would be for our podcast.

Backstage

The product he was referring to, is Backstage.What this episode coversBackstage is a platform for developer portals that is used as an app store for tools for software engineers. This product was build inside Spotify and later on open-sourced by them.We thought it was a good idea to get these tools in a unified packageQuestions we touch uponWhat does engineering productivity mean?How is engineering productivity measured?Why is engineering productivity important?How can engineering productivity be improved?What is Backstage open source?Who uses backstage io?Why Backstage io?What is Spotify backstage?GuestsRoy Jacobs – Software Engineer – Technical Platform. Already joined us when we explored Axle – the opinionated support for our scrum teams using JavaOnno Ceelen – Product Manager – Technical PlatformNotesBackstage homepageIntroduction to Backstage at SpotifyAxle the bol.com Springboot framework: podcast, blog on Axle usage