Backstage specialists for your dedicated team.

Where Backstage fits in a long-term product team.

The problem Backstage addresses is real in any organisation past a certain size: working out who owns a service, where its documentation lives and what it depends on. A catalogue with enforced ownership metadata makes those answerable, which matters most during an incident.

It is a framework, with the work of a product still to do, and that is where adoptions struggle. Running Backstage means running an application: deploying it, upgrading it, writing plugins and keeping the catalogue accurate. A portal whose data is six months stale is worse than no portal, because people trust it briefly and then stop.

What your dedicated team does with Backstage.

Catalogue accuracy is the entire value, and it decays by default. Services get created, ownership changes, teams reorganise, and unless registration is part of how a service is created, the catalogue drifts immediately.

Making it self-maintaining through scaffolding is the design decision that decides whether it lasts. That kind of long-horizon platform work is assigned as a committed monthly capacity.

Common Backstage use cases.

• Ownership answerable during an incident Who owns a service, available without asking three people at 3am.
• New services correct from creation Scaffolding templates that register the service and set up its baseline automatically.
• Documentation beside the code Docs-as-code surfaced in the portal, so they are updated in the same pull request.

Adding Backstage skills to your team.

Developer portal work sits with your dedicated cloud and DevOps team, with catalogue accuracy designed in from the start.

You can add Backstage capacity as one dedicated specialist or as part of a wider remote team, managed by a service delivery manager from our offices in Thailand. Companies hire dedicated developers this way under one agreement and one monthly fee.