DevOps Jun 23, 2025

5 years of Backstage: How Spotify continues to innovate

At Spotify, we believe developers are most effective, and happiest, when the chaos is controlled and the focus is on innovating. That’s why we built Backstage. Since donating it to the CNCF in 2020, over 3,400 companies of all shapes and sizes, across industries have adopted Backstage with over 230 community-built open source plugins. Today, we continue to invest in building products that get an IDP up and running fast without a large platform engineering team. Join the session to hear how Spotify is empowering teams to 2x their productivity with Spotify Portal for Backstage and our homegrown plugins. Learn more: https://platformcon.com/sessions/5-years-of-backstage-how-spotify-continues-to-innovate