Spotify for Backstage

Spotify's background coding agent 🪿Honk got a lot of attention last month. But the real story is the platform behind it — Backstage and Fleet Management form the context layer and control plane for AI-driven automation across Spotify. Watch our on-demand webinar to learn how we built Honk — and how the Software Catalog, Soundcheck, Fleetshifts, and AiKA help us enable complex migrations at scale: 📺 https://hubs.li/Q045zVhX0 🤖🪿🚀

“When we tried to roll out [our first golden path] to the company, we got a lot of push back and resistance” — Mingdao Lu Last week, Tom Fazakas and Mingdao Lu from Volvo Group joined our February Community Session to give us an inside look at how one of the world's largest manufacturing companies drove Backstage adoption through developer happiness: 📺 https://hubs.li/Q044DW6P0 After their initial golden paths approach met resistance — too rigid, too top-down — the team turned not to a tech guru, but to Bruce Lee. His philosophy of "be water" became a guiding principle, shaping a customer-centric mindset focused on the power of adaptability and meeting teams where they are. By listening to their customers, they were able to zero in and address acute developer experience issues — like taking an access provisioning process that used to take “days or even weeks” and reducing it to a few clicks in a self-service Backstage Software Template. Once developers saw the value firsthand, adoption took on a life of its own — with 70% of templates now contributed by teams outside the central platform group. Watch the full presentation at the link above to hear how they balanced developer freedom with promoting standards, and how a little flexibility can go a long way in driving transformation at scale. 🛻🦫🚀

Working in a regulated industry like finance, health, or gaming? 🏦🏥🎰 Spotify Portal delivers enterprise-grade capabilities out of the box — like Audit Logs — to help you meet regulatory requirements while giving your teams the operational visibility they need to investigate incidents and maintain accountability. Portal Audit Logs is a standardized, durable logging system that records who did what, when, and where across Portal. It captures critical user‑initiated actions — such as RBAC changes, configuration updates, and scaffolder executions — and makes them available through a secure, queryable API. Watch this quick demo video from Spotify developer advocate Stuart Clark to see how easy it is to set up Audit Logs inside Spotify Portal: 📺 https://hubs.li/Q044p5fY0 Ready for a closer look at the enterprise-ready Spotify Portal? Talk with our team and start a free trial today: 👉 https://hubs.li/Q044p2ty0 🏦✅🏥✅🎰✅

Rules and skills help AI agents understand context and follow standards. That works great locally — but how do you scale this across your organization so everyone's agents stay aligned? 🤖🛠️🤖🛠️🤖🛠️ At Spotify, we use Backstage to keep AI agents aligned with centralized rules across the full development lifecycle. Watch this quick demo video from our developer advocate Stuart Clark to see how easy it is to set up rules for your whole org inside Spotify Portal: 📺 https://hubs.li/Q043PN8N0 Ready to take your AI workflows further? Start a free trial of Spotify Portal today: 👉 https://hubs.li/Q043PNh70 🤖🛠️

✨Spotify Portal Office Hours are here! ✨ Join the Spotify team for a live session where you can watch demos, ask questions, solve problems, and discover how to get the most out of Portal. What you can expect: 🎥 Live product demos and walkthroughs 💬 Interactive Q&A — we’re here to answer your questions! 📚 Feature deep-dives and workflows 💡 Best practices and pro tips Reserve your spot today! 🚀 https://hubs.li/Q0434VRH0

Hello there, Backstage Community! We have a special guest joining us at next week’s Community Session — 🛻 Mingdao Lu will be sharing how the Volvo Group drove internal Backstage adoption by embracing adaptability and adopting a customer-centric mindset. Plus, highlights from the latest release, AMA with the Backstage maintainers, and more. Join us! Backstage Community Session Wednesday, Feb. 18 10:00 am EST / 16:00 CET Link to join here: 👉 https://hubs.li/Q042T-FY0 Have something you want to share with the community? Add it to the agenda above! Remember to subscribe to the Backstage Community calendar, so you never miss a special interest group (SIG), monthly community session, or meetup: 🗓️ https://lnkd.in/ejwgRMfg Sign up for the community newsletter: 📰 https://hubs.li/Q042T_Rr0 See you Wednesday! 🛻 🗓️

We’re celebrating Spotify Portal’s DEVIES Award for “Best Innovation in DevOps: CI/CD & Developer Platform Tools” by giving away FREE passes to attend DeveloperWeek 2026! DeveloperWeek 2026 Feb 18–20 San Jose, California Use this link to claim a FREE Open Pass: 🎟️ https://hubs.li/Q042HYJ60 Your free Open Pass (a $195 value) includes access to the week’s Keynotes, OPEN Sessions, Expo, and Community Events — including the 🏆 DEVIES Awards Ceremony on Wednesday night (Feb. 18, 6:30pm). Come celebrate with us! Reach out to Spotify's Head of CS Engineering for Backstage, Anthony Retli— and schedule time to catch up and talk about Spotify Portal while you’re there! Try the award-winning Spotify Portal for yourself today: https://hubs.li/Q042HZ520 🏆🎟️

Operating your own Backstage instance can mean owning a long list of responsibilities — infrastructure, upgrades, security, reliability, workflow health, observability, compliance, and more.🛠️ For companies that don’t have the resources for that level of investment, there’s Spotify Portal — our fully managed, hosted SaaS solution for Backstage. It gives teams the power and flexibility of Backstage without the work of running and maintaining it themselves — and with Spotify’s operational experience built in.🚀 In our latest blog post, we explain how Spotify runs Backstage-as-a-Service at scale, and how those operational learnings are built directly into Spotify Portal. The result is an enterprise-ready platform that frees your teams to focus on improving developer experience instead of managing infrastructure. Read more on our blog: 📖 https://hubs.li/Q041-bVS0 Ready to get the value of Backstage without running it yourself? Schedule time to talk with Spotify’s Backstage experts: 👋https://hubs.li/Q041-g1_0 🛠️🚀

"Our engineers are now able to execute fleet-wide migrations at a pace that simply wasn’t possible before.” — Max Charas, Spotify This kind of AI-driven automation is the next step in platform engineering at scale. With Backstage standardizing our ecosystem and Fleet Management normalizing one-to-many changes, AI agents change who does the work — reducing significant toil while enabling large-scale transformations that weren’t practical before. Thanks for sharing our story, Anthropic! 🤖🚀

“I literally haven't written a line of code in two months, because all of that is being done for me with the agents that I use. And that is a very, very different way of thinking about it…It turned out that it wasn’t that hands-on-keyboard thing that I enjoyed. I enjoyed being able to solve problems and shipping that to users.” Spotify’s chief architect, Niklas Gustavsson, has helped lead our engineering organization through nearly 15 years of technological change — from adopting microservices, to migrating to the cloud, to automating code changes at scale — but none of these shifts have been as transformative or impactful as generative AI. Niklas joined Tobias Macey at the AI Engineering Podcast to talk about how agentic AI is already reshaping the way we build software at Spotify — and what has him so excited about this new way of working. 🎧Listen to the AI Engineering Podcast, Ep.74: “The Future of Dev Experience: Spotify’s Playbook for Organization‑Scale AI”: https://hubs.li/Q041wM3P0 Want to leverage AI like we do at Spotify? Try Spotify Portal today 👉 https://hubs.li/Q041wLY90 🎧🤖