# Backstage Wrapped 2024: The year's Top 5 milestones and highlights

DevFeed: [Backstage Wrapped 2024: The year's Top 5 milestones and highlights](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/backstage-wrapped-2024-the-year-s-top-5-milestones-and-highlights-12108.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://backstage.io/blog/2024/12/18/backstage-wrapped-2024>)

Author: Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify & Ben Lambert, Spotify

Published: 2024-12-18T00:00:00Z

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>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Cloud Native Ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-native-ecosystem.md>), [Maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainers.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>)

Tags: [backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backstage.md>), [cloud-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-native.md>), [cncf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cncf.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contributors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributors.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>), [idp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/idp.md>), [internal-developer-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internal-developer-platform.md>), [maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintainers.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [platform-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-engineering.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.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>), [visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visualization.md>)

## AI overview

Backstage Wrapped 2024 highlights the Backstage community's growth and activity. The article reports more than 60,000 total contributions since 2020, 12,300 commits in 2024, strong end-user contribution levels among CNCF projects, and the first Backstage Contribfest hosted by maintainers from Spotify and Red Hat.

## Source excerpt

Bowie the Backstage Beaver in an astronaut outfit riding a firecracker surrounded by fireworks exploding with stats: 210+ open source plugins, 1.6k contributors, 60k total contributions