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This is by Stefan Ålund from Spotify, who was (is still?) product manager for System-Z. System-Z is Spotify's internal service catalog and developer productivi
by kenrose 7y ago
This is by Stefan Ålund from Spotify, who was (is still?) product manager for System-Z. System-Z is Spotify's internal service catalog and developer productivity suite. (I'm not sure if they still use the name System-Z internally).
Here's an old talk about it (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XDA044tl8k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XDA044tl8k
and here's some slides from a newer talk (2017):
https://microcph.dk/media/1024/conference-microcph-2017.pdf https://microcph.dk/media/1024/conference-microcph-2017.pdf
In a nutshell, the aim is to make it easy for developers to find out info about other services as well as make changes to the services they own.
It looks like Backstage is about open sourcing big parts of System-Z so that others can build on it.
Disclosure: I'm CTO @ OpsLevel, where we make a SaaS-based service catalog product.