Backstage access: Spotify’s dev tools side-hustle is growing legs

Spotify creates a large part of revenues from ads and subscriptions, but in the past few years the music-streaming giant was quiet install a developer business. BackA project opened in 2020 was adopted by more than 2 million developers between 3,400 organizations, including Airbnb, Linkedin, Twilio and American Airlines.

Backstage helps create special “internal developer portals” (IDPs), combining all the tools, applications, information, services, services, services and documents in an interface.

Want to watch Keverstnetes, see cloud costs or check your CI / CD status? Enter the backstage.

Cloud Native Computing Fund (CNCF), Supported CNCF as a incubating project) In 2022The backpack reported that he was one of his Top 5 projects last year in terms of speed and activity. And this is this speed that moves down twice, with various premium tools and services in Horizon.

The stove baked

Companies can now use the Core Backstage product for free, including a number Open source plugins extends to work. But Spotify began selling premium plugins in 2022 Backstage conceptsIndicating the information associated with active rear use within an organization. And Spotify last year Its Dev tools seriously approached the work gameannouncer Spotify portal for spot In Beta: A reward for lacking resources (or inclination) to build themselves, the baked embodiment of the oven. “Back in a box” is a general idea.

The completely managed Saas product is currently the development of design partners and customers, including the Linux Foundation and Pager.

“We’ve found that various customer profiles have a lot. Tyson singer (Described above), Spotify’s technology and platforms, the head of the Technology and platforms, was told to Techcrunch in an interview in Kubecon last month. “Our original theory was large as large enterprises of large enterprises related to many complexity, but we saw small companies see the same problems.

Spotify is also a conversation, including several new premium portal plugins, including AIKA (“AI Knowledge Assistant”, including AIKA (“AI Knowledge Assistant”.

2023 The result of Hackathon, Spotify, AKI’s workforce is used to query the company’s collective knowledge base by 25% of the workforce. Thus, if delaying the delayed support channels, the employees may only ask the Aigan taught to their internal documents and data.

Singer, AKA’s benefit – the benefits of AIKA, which answers the questions immediately – encourages ensure that all employees are relevant. If anyone does not receive a question a good answer, the answer may be referred to in response to ensure that the source is used and the improvement of the source document.

“This [AiKA] Some kind of sounds are simple, but it is strong and we have adopted a high level very quickly, “he said.[I think why is because] This is not only those who use – Everyone in the R & D organization entered in, which brings him to the back ecosystem. This creates this very positive flight wheel between quality and discovery. “

Spotify, an alpha version of AIKA has started fast to third parties. Initially, there will be no feature parity with its own internal version and have to travel a way to increase the glue of the back post as a premium product in a long run.

Incentive

Backstage, the developer of the developer at home is looking for a monetized by Spotify. Somewhat 20 months ago The company has announced ConfidenceThe A / B practice platform has been hidden since this time.

“There are several customers who make a payment [for Confidence]But we are really focused on the portal, “the singer said.” There was a very selective about the customers we left to the door. “

According to the singer, Spotify will have more about trust this year, although he pointed out among the potential syherles between the trust and portal in the form of a slightly simple Feature-flag functionality to the portal.

When all is called and done, a developer with a developer, the emporium, which works as an online music with a developer, was undoubtedly a great commitment. But it’s all good cause. More than a decade ago, Spotify created its own container Orchestral platform was called Helios To support the transition to a Microservices Architecture. Spotify, eventually expanded, opened boiled Helios to be wider, eventually lost Google’s Kevertneteshappening to conquer the world.

Spotify thronnetes in the cunning Helios and KubertNetes – then “painful” decision. And now that we see with the back posture: an effort to ensure that the backstage is Industrial Standard is IDPAnd he is not necessary to not pass anything else next to his developers.

“When you have an offset product with an external product, especially open source, migration value is only large,” he said. “And this is why we decided to ask a product that we decided, and that we want a product that is the basis for how we developed in Spotify.”

Spotify, while in 2020, when opening this problem during the opening retreat, it is now the following reward products that are really to ensure its adhesion.

“We are a businesslike business – and we want to build a healthy job on all this,” said the singer. “We only try to pay the costs. At the end of the day, we currently have a trapped value inside Spotify.”