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Signed-off-by: Raghunandan Balachandran <raghunandan@spotify.com>
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The substantial architecture decisions made in the Backstage project live here.
For more information about ADRs, when to write them, and why, please see
[this blog post](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/04/14/when-should-i-write-an-architecture-decision-record/).
[this blog post](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/04/when-should-i-write-an-architecture-decision-record/).
Records are never deleted but can be marked as superseded by new decisions or
deprecated.
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### Golden Paths
At Spotify, we have the concept of [Golden Paths](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/08/17/how-we-use-golden-paths-to-solve-fragmentation-in-our-software-ecosystem/) — one for each engineering discipline. My favourite definition of Golden Path is that it is the “opinionated and supported path”. Each Golden Path has an accompanying Golden Path tutorial that walks you through the opinionated and supported path.
At Spotify, we have the concept of [Golden Paths](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/08/how-we-use-golden-paths-to-solve-fragmentation-in-our-software-ecosystem/) — one for each engineering discipline. My favourite definition of Golden Path is that it is the “opinionated and supported path”. Each Golden Path has an accompanying Golden Path tutorial that walks you through the opinionated and supported path.
The Golden Path tutorials are Spotifys most used and important documents and have shown themselves to be the most challenging to manage within a docs-like-code environment. One reason for this is that they are long, divided into many parts, and ownership is typically spread among many different teams. We have had to make use of GitHub codeowners to handle ownership and had to create datasets and data pipelines to be able to attach GitHub Issues to the specific parts or files that a team owns. Another challenge of the Golden Path tutorials is that parts are often dependent on other parts. We are just starting to look into how we can solve these dependency challenges in order to remove friction for engineers writing tutorial documentation.
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Before providing recommendations on getting started with Backstage, its helpful to have a bit of context as to why Spotify made the design decisions we did. No two companies are identical — and thus, no two Backstage implementations are the same.
Rolling back the clock just a few years, [Spotify was challenged](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/05/18/a-product-story-the-lessons-of-backstage-and-spotifys-autonomous-culture/) to continue to scale our engineering team (and the number of features and components built) but retain the speed of product development. Some user research with Spotify developers highlighted a clear problem: there was simply too much non-documented institutional knowledge needed to get things done. No one could find anything and everyone was interrupting everyone else trying to figure things out.
Rolling back the clock just a few years, [Spotify was challenged](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/05/a-product-story-the-lessons-of-backstage-and-spotifys-autonomous-culture/) to continue to scale our engineering team (and the number of features and components built) but retain the speed of product development. Some user research with Spotify developers highlighted a clear problem: there was simply too much non-documented institutional knowledge needed to get things done. No one could find anything and everyone was interrupting everyone else trying to figure things out.
Spotifys developers were facing three big challenges on a daily basis:
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[![The Backstage community is growing! In just over a year, Backstage has gone from a few open source building blocks to a thriving platform used by engineering orgs with thousands of developers. But even with 30+ adopting companies and 400+ contributors, we are still in the very early stages of reaching the platforms potential.](assets/21-06-22/spotify-backstage-header.gif)](https://backstage.spotify.com/)
_[backstage.spotify.com](https://backstage.spotify.com)_
The Backstage community is growing! In just over [a year](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/03/16/happy-birthday-backstage-spotifys-biggest-open-source-project-grows-up-fast/), Backstage has gone from a few open source building blocks to a thriving platform used by engineering orgs with thousands of developers. But even with 30+ [adopting companies](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md) and 400+ contributors, we are still in the very early stages of reaching the platforms potential.
The Backstage community is growing! In just over [a year](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/03/happy-birthday-backstage-spotifys-biggest-open-source-project-grows-up-fast/), Backstage has gone from a few open source building blocks to a thriving platform used by engineering orgs with thousands of developers. But even with 30+ [adopting companies](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md) and 400+ contributors, we are still in the very early stages of reaching the platforms potential.
In order to grow Backstage further, Spotify is increasing the support we provide both adopters (the people integrating Backstage into their organizations) and contributors (the people building features and improving the code). The more companies that adopt Backstage, the more support the project gets, the stronger the platform becomes for everyone.
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authorImageURL: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6290749?v=4
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**TL;DR** There is no shortage of content that discusses the benefits that Backstage brings to organizations (and if you want to read more on that, you can just click [here](https://engineering.atspotify.com/category/backstage/), [here](https://backstage.io/blog), or [here](https://backstage.spotify.com/discover/blog/)). But I want to share what it did for me, a developer here at Spotify. And not just what it did, but how Ive used Backstage to help me achieve goals at each stage of my journey at Spotify — from my first day as a brand new employee to today, my 1,186th day as a contributor.
**TL;DR** There is no shortage of content that discusses the benefits that Backstage brings to organizations (and if you want to read more on that, you can just click [here](https://engineering.atspotify.com/?c=backstage), [here](https://backstage.io/blog), or [here](https://backstage.spotify.com/discover/blog/)). But I want to share what it did for me, a developer here at Spotify. And not just what it did, but how Ive used Backstage to help me achieve goals at each stage of my journey at Spotify — from my first day as a brand new employee to today, my 1,186th day as a contributor.
![Backstage Engineer Journey](assets/2024-06-27/backstage-engineer-journey.svg)
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<p>
Watch the videos below to get an introduction to Backstage and to
see how we use different plugins to customize{' '}
<Link to="https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/04/21/how-we-use-backstage-at-spotify/">
<Link to="https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/04/how-we-use-backstage-at-spotify/">
our internal version of Backstage at Spotify
</Link>
</p>