Internal-Developer-Platform

IDPs For The Rest of Us: Maximizing Impact When You Aren't a Tech Giant 2024-11-17

At BackstageCon 2024, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to share how Quantum Metric has maximized the value of its Internal Developer Platform (IDP) by leveraging Backstage. For those who couldn’t attend, I’ve consolidated the key insights here in written format.

The presentation can be viewed here .

We will cover:

Our journey in rethinking platform strategy and selecting Backstage as our IDP.
An overview of custom plugins we’ve built, highlighting our approach to defining key metrics and validating their impact.
Key themes and takeaways that have been instrumental for our team and can provide value at any stage of your IDP journey.

Rethinking our Platform Strategy

Quantum Metric enables organizations to understand and prioritize what matters most by capturing real-time customer insights. With a rapidly growing product and customer base, maintaining efficiency and scalability while staying lean has always been a top priority.

Introducing the Quantum Metric Analytics Plugin for Backstage 2024-03-20

reading time: 2 minutes

At Quantum Metric, the concept of dog fooding, or using our own products to solve our problems, has been a cornerstone of our product development process.

Since the beginning of our journey with Backstage, our team has always valued a deeper understanding of user engagement and behavior on the platform. This approach has enabled us to leverage the power of our own product from the outset, offering us a window into both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the platform we are building. As our platform has grown and evolved, so has our commitment to refining the data that we capture.