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We’re joined by Jim Haughwout (Head of Infrastructure and Operations) and Stefan Ålund (Principal Product Manager) from Spotify to talk about how they manage hundreds of teams producing code and shipping at scale. Thanks to their recently open sourced open platform for building developer portals called Backstage, Spotify is able to keep engineering squads connected and shipping high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.
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Featuring:
- Jim Haughwout – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Stefan Ålund – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Show Notes:
- spotify/backstage
- What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
- Backstage has been accepted into the CNCF Sandbox
- Backstage on CNCF landscape
- MkDocs - Project documentation with Markdown
- Gary Niemen on how Spotify is solving internal technical documentation
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