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Building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with Backstage
Introduction to Internal Developer Platforms
In modern software organizations, the complexity of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and diverse tooling can overwhelm development teams. Developers are often burdened with cognitive load, spending valuable time navigating infrastructure, security, and deployment pipelines instead of writing code. The solution to this growing problem is the Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
An IDP provides a curated, self-service experience for developers, offering a “paved road” that abstracts away the underlying complexity. It codifies best practices and provides developers with the tools and guardrails they need to build, ship, and run software efficiently and securely. This post explores how to build a powerful IDP using Backstage, the open-source framework created and donated by Spotify.
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