Backstage: an open platform for building developer portals
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#3That's really useful for big companies having problems with documenting their ecosystem without relying on tons of Word documents.
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#4I just skimmed much of their website, and felt like I was left still wondering what Backstage actually does.
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#5Is it me or is this really unclear? I get it is supposed to simplify the back-end for developers but for what exactly? Scheduling tasks? looking at metrics? I get I can install plugins but what plugins? Maybe this isn't for me, but it is unclear to me precisely what scenario this is solving for?
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#6Seems like a developer-oriented version of Confluence, if I'm reading it correctly, but I'm also a bit unsure.
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#7So it's a frontend to put in front of your existing frontends so developers can infrastructure the infrastructure?
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#9I just skimmed much of their website, and felt like I was left still wondering what Backstage actually does .
It's a god system. It tries to do everything, but in the end does nothing well.
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