Backstage, with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Backstage is a platform for building developer portals, powered by a centralized service catalog. It was built at Spotify and both open sourced and donated to the CNCF in 2020. A Kubernetes plugin was recently added. We talk to maintainers Lee Mills and Matt Clarke from Spotify.

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Chatter of the week

• Episode 106, with John Belamaric
• Production Readiness Review

News of the week

• Longhorn 1.1
• Vitess 9
• Sonobuoy adds reliability scanning
• Rapid7 acquires Alcide; Techcrunch reporting
• Armo comes out of stealth; VentureBeat reporting
• Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes at OpenAI
• Announcing the Linkerd steering committee
• The State of Cloud Native Release Orchestration; a report from Vamp
• Hunting for malware with Falco
  • Episode 39, with Dan Lorenc
• Upgrading from Kubernetes 1.11 to 1.18 in a month by Jeff Wolski at WeTransfer
• Debugging CrashLoopBackOff by David Giffin from Release
• Jeff Brewer has passed
  • Intuit CNCF case study

Links from the interview

• Spotify engineering culture
• Microservices at Spotify
• Backstage
  • Open source launch
  • How Spotify uses Backstage
  • GitHub repository
• Golden Paths
• Kubernetes plugin announcement
• Episode 50, with David Xia
• Donation to CNCF Sandbox
• Some backstage stories with David Pait in episode 127
• Lee Mills and Matt Clarke on Twitter