Jorge Lainfiesta

Oct 19, 2023 | roadie.io | Jorge Lainfiesta

A comprehensible Catalog in Backstage is the ultimate goal for many teams. To achieve it you need a plan and a way of tracking your progress. This article will not delve into the former, as a suitable plan is something only you and your team can come up with. But measuring how well your Catalog is doing is something everyone needs and can help you tune your plan along the way. Backstage is used by organizations large and small, and for different purposes.

Oct 3, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Jorge Lainfiesta |Alex Kvamme |Joshua Reini |Loraine Lawson

Every engineering organization has unique challenges. For Zalando, the online fashion powerhouse, there are special events, like CyberWeek, that require alignment from everyone on board. For Lunar Bank, the online bank making waves in Scandinavia, providing Danish regulators with live compliance reports of its systems is critical. These examples require extensive collaboration across teams, which is best done through a finely tuned internal developer portal.

Sep 5, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Jorge Lainfiesta |Loraine Lawson |Alan Ho |Chris Preimesberger

The developer portal is a prominent aspect of most platforms, as it’s a privileged point of interaction between you and your users. Developer portals reflect the features of the platform through a centralized UI, which means they must be tailored to your developers and the capabilities you want to provide. Here’s where Backstage shines: customizability.

Aug 7, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Jorge Lainfiesta |David Eastman |William Bakst |Alexander Williams

Software nowadays is rarely written from scratch. According to Forrester, the average software is composed of at least 75% open source code. Additionally, teams rely heavily on third-party code. Thus, the code you put into production comes from different sources and goes through various networks and actors to get there. This is known as the software supply chain.

Aug 1, 2023 | roadie.io | Jorge Lainfiesta

DUBLIN, July 2023. Roadie, the Backstage-based SaaS Developer Portal, announced the general availability of its first feature on top of Backstage: Tech Insights. With Roadie Tech Insights, software engineering teams can use Scorecards to monitor their software assets in the Backstage catalog and make sure they meet the quality and compliance standards they have set. Scorecards are based on Data Sources and Checks that the user can customize through a UI.