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

Eric.Irwin@gmail.com (Eric Irwin) — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.

System Models in Backstage

Eric.Irwin@gmail.com (Eric Irwin) — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

At Quantum Metric, our teams committed to leveraging Backstage within our Developer Experience Platform (or DXP as we refer to it) following a brief but convincing POC. We felt confident in it becoming a critical component within our Platform moving forward.

We wanted to share our experiences in the early stages of integrating Backstage as well as give some examples for why we felt that it was important to build a strong foundation to support our System Model.

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

Rethinking our Platform Strategy

System Models in Backstage