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We see a lot of clustering in teams, microservices, libraries, and so on. We think a centralized software catalog like Backstage can help use to get a clearer view of our stack and the dependencies of a platform. It also helps to get the information and documentation you need as a developer more quickly.
Backstage is an open-source developer portal platform created by Spotify. There is a very active community around it with already a lot of plugins for integrations with other tools, ci, monitoring and so on.
At AOE we assess backstage in a big project with a subset of features.