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🚀 New Blog Alert! 🚀 Dive deep into how you can customize Backstage Kinds and Types to fit your organization's needs, without creating confusion in your catalog. Whether it's choosing the right "Kind" or preventing type duplication, this guide covers common pitfalls and practical solutions. An essential read for Backstage adopters and developers looking to streamline catalog management. Check out the full post on Roadie: How to customize Backstage Kinds and Types without getting in trouble - https://lnkd.in/ev9qRZZZ

🎉 Unveiling an Enhanced Sidebar at Roadie! 🎉 We're thrilled to introduce our latest feature: a redesigned sidebar that will significantly improve your Backstage experience. Here's what you can expect: 🎨 Sleek Design: Seamlessly integrated with your site's brand, supporting both dark and light modes 🔧 Customizable Navigation: Hide or show main items organization wide for a tailored experience 🔗 Enhanced Linking: Connect to custom pages or specific catalog configurations This update represents a significant improvement over Backstage's original sidebar, offering improved aesthetics and functionality. 👉 We're committed to continually enhancing your developer portal experience. What features would you like to see next? Let us know in the comments! #Backstage #DeveloperPortal #UserExperience #Roadie

💡 Have you tried Roadie's Shortcut plugin for Backstage from Spotify 🤔 The Shortcut plugin for Backstage allows you to view owned Shortcut stories on the Backstage homepage, and also shows the Stories related to an entity in the Backstage catalog. Have you tried it yet. It's already available on Roadie! #backstage #roadie

🚀 The Cloudsmith Plugin for Backstage is Here! 🎉 We've just released the Cloudsmith Plugin for Backstage from Spotify! It surfaces valuable Cloudsmith repository data like stats, security information and quotas directly in Backstage. We developed the plugin for Backstage in collaboration with our friends at Cloudsmith and it's already available on Roadie. Check it out and let us know what you think!

🚀 The LaunchDarkly Plugin for Backstage from Spotify is Here! 🎉 We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new LaunchDarkly Plugin for Backstage! This integration is designed to display feature flags directly into your Backstage catalog, giving the visibility of active features across your entities. And the best part? It's already available on Roadie! Check it out and let us know what you think! 

🌟 Unblocking teams once Day 1 is over 🌟 Transitioning from Day 1 to Day 2 in software development can present unique challenges, often leaving teams struggling to maintain and scale their applications effectively. In this article, we dive into how companies use Roadie to tackle these Day 2 challenges, enhancing operational efficiency and boosting team productivity. #Roadie #Backstage #DevOps #SoftwareDevelopment #TechBlog

We're thrilled to introduce our latest Backstage addition: the Gravatar Plugin! 🎉 This plugin enhances your Backstage experience by adding Gravatar images directly into the users in your catalog. Key Features: - Seamless integration, just drop it into your Backstage catalog backend and you are done. - Generates Gravatar image urls based on user emails. - Easy setup - Zero configuration Check it out on GitHub and let us know what you think! 💻 #Backstage #DevTools #Gravatar #OpenSource #Roadie

GitOps software catalog metadata sounds great, but one major downside is that it's difficult to make updates to the catalog once it grows. Bulk changes become a pain at best, impossible at worst. 😩 Many Roadie customers have thousands of catalog-info.yaml files distributed throughout their GitHub repositories. What happens when they introduce a new tool and want to tag each piece of software with a link to a dashboard? In the past, the only option was to open thousands of pull requests and hope that teams merge them. 🙏 We've just released the Fragments API on Roadie. This set of endpoints can be used to make programatic bulk changes to the metadata of software stored in the catalog. For the first time, Roadie customers can update Backstage from Spotify metadata in bulk via a script.

Roadie supports native plugins for Backstage from Spotify, including those you develop yourself. But how? This video demonstrates how to create an example plugin from scratch, deploy it into Roadie, and add it to the interface. On top of the flexible Backstage plugin architecture, Roadie supports: 1. CLIs for developing, packaging and deploying custom plugins straight into the Roadie interface. 2. The ability to run multiple versions of a plugin simultaneously, so you can develop version 2 of your plugin while existing users continue to use version 1. 3. A scaffolder template for bootstrapping a custom plugins monorepo.

Here’s 4 areas we see AI being a win for internal developer portals… • 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴. It’s clear that completing the catalog is a priority and a difficult task for many orgs. Can we analyze a GitHub repo and automatically collect metadata from it? • 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. The IDP is in a unique position because it’s connected to so many DevTools. Can we use this data to answer questions that require data from multiple tools. Something like “which production services have the longest MTTR?” • 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴. Software templates can sometimes produce obscure errors. Can we use AI to point the user to the correct solution? • 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. We see customers want to write checks like “Ensure all production software has a useful README”. This is difficult to do with programatic checks, but could be done by an AI that scores documentation. What else should we be thinking about as we build out AI capabilities in Roadie? #ai #backstage #devtools