backstage
5 articles tagged backstage.
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Is GitLab Orbit a developer portal? (Orbit vs the IDPs)
Port's CEO called Backstage dead, then GitLab shipped Orbit. Is Orbit a developer portal? No, it ships no catalog — and the catalog wars miss the question none of them answers.
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Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it
The Backstage worth-it debate is always about cost — FTEs, months, TCO. Spotify's own head of Backstage engineering says that's not where it dies.
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Backstage alternatives in 2026: first ask why you wanted Backstage
Every "Backstage alternatives" roundup lists the same five portals. None of them asks the question that decides which alternative is right: what job sent you looking in the first place?
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The catalog maintenance trap: why service catalogs go stale
Backstage and the developer-portal category solve a real problem. The reason platform teams quietly abandon them is something different, and it points at the shape of what actually works.
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The State of Infrastructure Dependency Tooling in 2026
An honest survey of the infrastructure dependency tooling landscape in 2026 — what Backstage, Renovate, HCP Terraform Explorer, Nx, Wiz, and DIY scripts each solve, where they fall short, and the gap that none of them fill.