A developer at bol migrated the company's five-year-old Backstage internal developer platform from Yarn 4 to pnpm, a move motivated by Git worktree workflows that let parallel coding agents work in se…
A new operational handover guide advises teams taking ownership of AI-built apps to record every deployed dependency — data stores, external APIs, credentials, scheduled work, billing and delivery pip…
Stack Overflow released Stack Internal 2026.6, adding centralized admin security with header-enforced API keys, session inactivity controls, and daily rate limits up to 10,000 requests per app, plus a…
A new Backstage plugin from @acarmisc provides a governance interface for LiteLLM proxy, enabling developers to manage virtual API keys and monitor AI model usage directly within Backstage 1.50+. The …
CNCF's Daniel Bryant argues that LLMOps should be integrated into existing platform engineering rather than treated as a separate stack, warning that shadow AI pipelines built outside governance pose …
Spotify launched Xirp on August 10th, an agentic development environment that orchestrates AI coding agents across models, repositories, and parallel sessions without model lock-in. Spotify's head of …
Treaty, an open specification proposal, aims to record and query the gap between what development teams request and what platforms actually grant, addressing a critical blind spot in infrastructure pr…
OpsCat, a single-binary software catalog with native MCP support for AI agents, launches as an open-source alternative to heavy developer portals like Backstage. Written in Go with an embedded React/V…
Spotify's VP of engineering Niklas Gustavsson revealed that the company ships 4,500 deploys daily and 73% of pull requests are AI-assisted, using Claude coding agents across a 20-million-line codebase…
Socket Threat Research tracked a fresh compromise in the Miasma Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign affecting legitimate npm packages under the @immobiliarelabs scope, including Backstage plugins fo…
Independent ad agency Goodway Group cut its SSP partners from about 20 to single digits after implementing its own supply path optimization (SPO) initiative called Goodpath, which focuses on a few pre…
Google has demonstrated that a platform engineering team of over 1,000 engineers can achieve near-zero misconfiguration incidents by synthesizing secure infrastructure from one-line developer declarat…
The article describes Hermes Agent as the first AI framework designed specifically for platform engineers, featuring a three-layer memory architecture that automatically builds "runbook libraries" by …
The article describes the author's work building NeuroScale, a self-service AI inference platform that manages complex Kubernetes infrastructure for deploying models like Gemma 4. The author explains …
The article describes the revival of NeuroScale, a broken MLOps platform that was abandoned in April 2026 after Backstage, ArgoCD, and KServe all failed. The author rebuilt it into a self-service AI i…
Technical guide for platform engineers and .NET developers on building an AI-powered Internal Developer Portal (IDP) using Backstage. The tutorial explains how to create a .NET CLI tool that scans sou…
Platform engineering should leverage existing tools like GitHub rather than building separate portals, as developers already spend most of their time in GitHub. It outlines a strategy using "golden-pa…