Backstage Is Overkill for Most Teams. Here’s What to Use Instead.

Developer exploring lightweight service catalog alternative to Backstage

TL;DR — Backstage is an excellent tool for large organizations building a full internal developer portal. For teams that need service dependency visualization and a service catalog, it’s significant infrastructure overhead for one feature. A YAML-based, static-file alternative gives you 80% of the value in an afternoon, with zero backend to maintain. Backstage, Spotify’s open-source […]