https://latini.dev/tags/backstage/Recent content in Backstage on F. Latini - IT EngineerHugoenMon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://latini.dev/posts/your-developer-portal-is-a-trap/Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://latini.dev/posts/your-developer-portal-is-a-trap/<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - A developer portal is the index of your paved roads, and almost nobody should build the index before they have the book. Standing up <a href="https://backstage.io/">Backstage</a> as your <em>first</em> platform move gives you an empty catalogue, a maintenance burden, and a demo that impresses leadership while helping zero developers. You earn a portal once discovery is a real problem - roughly the <a href="https://latini.dev/posts/platform-engineering-guide/">~30-services</a> mark the pillar names, several paved roads worth cataloguing, and ownership data someone actually maintains. Before that, a boring markdown catalogue does the same job for a thousandth of the cost. This is the post-script to <a href="https://latini.dev/posts/building-your-first-golden-path/">building your first golden path</a>: what comes after the road, and why it isn&rsquo;t the portal.</p>