# 1,186 days with Backstage: A journey through the eyes of a developer

DevFeed: [1,186 days with Backstage: A journey through the eyes of a developer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/1-186-days-with-backstage-a-journey-through-the-eyes-of-a-developer-12104.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://backstage.io/blog/2024/06/27/backstage-engineer-journey>)

Author: Camila Loiola, Spotify

Published: 2024-06-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/backstage-software-catalog-and-developer-platform-blog.md>)

Topics: [Backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backstage.md>), [internal developer portal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internal-developer-portal.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backstage.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [developer-portal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-portal.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [idp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/idp.md>), [internal-developer-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internal-developer-platform.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [platform-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-engineering.md>), [software-catalog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-catalog.md>), [software-templates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-templates.md>), [techdocs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/techdocs.md>)

## AI overview

A Spotify developer describes using Backstage throughout 1,186 days at the company, from onboarding to contributing. Backstage's TechDocs and Software Catalog helped the developer learn internal development practices, find documentation and source code, understand team-owned components, and build, publish, and monitor production applications.

## Source excerpt

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, here, or here). But I want to share what it did for me, a developer here at Spotify. And not just what it did, but how I've 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.