# Adopter Spotlight: How Chicago Trading Company saved 18 months of developer effort with Backstage

DevFeed: [Adopter Spotlight: How Chicago Trading Company saved 18 months of developer effort with Backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/adopter-spotlight-how-chicago-trading-company-saved-18-months-of-developer-effort-with-backstage-12099.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://backstage.io/blog/2023/09/29/chicago-traiding-company-adopter-spotlight>)

Author: Tiffany Cox, Spotify

Published: 2023-09-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

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>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>)

Tags: [backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backstage.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [developer-portal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-portal.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.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>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.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

Chicago Trading Company adopted Backstage to reduce onboarding friction for a new cloud-based DevOps Kubernetes platform. By using Software Templates, documentation, and feedback from end-user teams, the company reports saving 18 months of developer time.

## Source excerpt

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