In our fourth official meetup, we kick things off with a little celebration: hear why the CNCF honored Spotify with its Top End User Award and why that’s a win for the entire Backstage community (00:12). Then watch another great Backstage adoption story, this time from TELUS Digital and ThoughtWorks (03:08), who worked together to build a Backstage developer portal for TELUS’s 8,000 engineers. They call their portal Simplify — and it’s a beauty. Highlights:
• The team envisions their portal as “the go-to place to find answers about development and delivery at TELUS, from getting to your first commit to reaching the right person, API, or tool.”
• It will provide “self-serve onboarding for new team members and a one-stop shop for technical documentation.”
• It will “enable reuse and findability for all their developers,” and allow developers to “create, manage, and evolve the technical health of everything they build.”
• Backstage didn’t just allow TELUS to integrate their technology into the portal, but also their brand’s look and feel.
• Material-UI and React components allowed the team to align with brand standards to present a seamless TELUS experience for their devs.
• They built a custom plugin for Contentful, allowing them to incorporate the CMS they were already using.
• Along with Contentful, they also integrated GitHub and Swiftype to create a unique TechDocs-like experience.
• Anyone can write docs where and how they want — but now all that documentation is centralized and discoverable behind Backstage’s “single pane of glass.”
The TELUS and ThoughtWorks team also answered questions from the community. Following the presentation, the maintainers discussed recent changes to Backstage (24:01), including updates to the Backstage Service Catalog, experiments in customizing the homepage design, and more questions from the community.
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