Backstage: The costliest mistake in platform engineering?

Many organizations mistakenly believe that integrating Backstage into their infrastructure automatically results in a complete Internal Developer Platform. While Backstage can serve as a helpful starting point, it falls short of unlocking the full potential of platform engineering. Real platform engineering goes beyond just a frontend like Backstage, it demands a powerful and well-designed platform backend to succeed.

In this webinar, you'll learn why a successful platform requires both a robust frontend and backend. Kaspar will showcase how to integrate open-source tools like Score and Backstage with a Platform Orchestrator, such as Humanitec, to build a powerful, enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP).

Here’s what we’ll cover:
- Combining Backstage as the platform frontend with a Platform Orchestrator as the backend to create a seamless developer experience.
- Leveraging IDP reference architectures as blueprints for scalable enterprise solutions.
- A live demo showcasing the developer workflow on a fully-featured platform.

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.
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Speaker:
Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec
Kaspar is an early pioneer in platform engineering. Over the last decade he has been building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) at scale, and is responsible for coining the term IDP. A regular speaker on the topic of platform engineering, Kaspar is the author of several associated defining articles. He is also the founder and CEO of Humanitec, the company behind Score and the Platform Orchestrator which is now the centerpiece at the majority of dynamic IDPs.