Backstage
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Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. Developed by Spotify it provides a centralized place to look up information about the tooling, services, dependencies and architecture of a team's software solution. It can help for example in managing a Software Bill Of Materials within a team and even our entire company.
We want to assess the general use case of such platforms in our context and specifically gather experience with Backstage being a market leading solution in this space.