Spotify Plugins for Backstage: How Commercial & Open Source Go Hand-in-Hand • Joon Park • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph Joon Park - Engineering Manager at Spotify working on Backstage ORIGINAL TALK TITLE Spotify Plugins for Backstage: How Commercial and Open Source Software Go Hand-in-Hand at Spotify RESOURCES ABSTRACT When most people hear about commercial software being built on top of an open source ecosystem, they immediately think SaaS. But this isn’t the only way! At Spotify, we have hundreds of plugins providing many useful functionalities to our internal developer platform, Backstage. Since Backstage was open sourced in 2020, this plugin-based ecosystem has provided the community with a similar wealth of useful features. We’ll discuss how this extensible architecture paved the way for commercial plugins to live harmoniously within an open source ecosystem, and how Spotify-built Backstage plugins such as RBAC provides opportunities and incentives for implementations that result in positive impact on both sides. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:58 Agenda 03:34 What is Backstage? 12:50 Software catalog 20:21 Plugin ecosystem 24:19 Storytime 27:30 Spotify plugins for Backstage 30:10 Authorization in Backstage 39:06 Setting ourselves up for success 41:29 Lessons learned 43:30 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Joakim Sunden & Marcus Hammarberg • Kanban in Action • Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang & Ya Xu • Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments • Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois & John Willis • The DevOps Handbook • Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Lean Software Development • Marty Cagan • Inspired • Marty Cagan • Empowered • #Spotify #SpotifyBackstage #Backstage #BackstagePlatform #CNCF #CloudNative #RBAC #RoleBasedAccessControl #PluginEcosystem #Authorization #SaaS #SoftwareAsAService #JoonPark Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.