If you're considering an open-source developer portal solution like Backstage by Spotify, you should weigh the pros and cons and identify other solutions that can help you achieve your goals faster.
Backstage is an open-source project from Spotify, donated to CNCF, designed to provide teams with a framework for building their own internal developer portals. While it offers flexibility for those with the resources to build and maintain it, many organizations have found the cost of implementation and ongoing maintenance too high.
That’s where OpsLevel comes in. As a hosted developer portal solution, OpsLevel provides all the benefits of a powerful internal portal without the heavy lifting. By eliminating the overhead of building and then maintaining custom solutions from scratch, OpsLevel helps teams achieve productivity and operational excellence faster.
Backstage is an open-source framework for platform engineering teams to DIY their developer portal. Building a portal using Backstage, and then onboarding users often takes 9-12 months.
OpsLevel is a hosted internal dev portal built by first engineers from PagerDuty and Amazon who have felt the pain of sprawling architecture firsthand. OpsLevel allows engineering teams to create a flexible and customized solution in less than 30 days.
Backstage might be a good solution if:
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An internal developer portal can unlock engineering team productivity if you choose the right solution for your team and business. Here are some of the questions we often hear from engineering leaders.
Just like most things in life, there are pros and cons to both build or buy solutions. We've spent hundreds of hours speaking with leaders who have been successful and many more talking with leaders who ditched Backstage for OpsLevel.
We put our findings in a free guide to help you make a good decision about whether to build or buy your internal developer portal.
After a slow and painful start at building their own internal developer portal with Backstage, Prodigy Education ditched the DIY and moved to OpsLevel. The switch earned them a faster rollout and improved software maturity.
OpsLevel is the leading hosted internal developer portal designed to give teams the flexibility to meet their unique needs without spending months building and maintaining a DIY solution.
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