# SoundCloud Echo: Next-Level Humane Registry with Backstage

DevFeed: [SoundCloud Echo: Next-Level Humane Registry with Backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/soundcloud-echo-next-level-humane-registry-with-backstage-2147.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//soundcloud-echo-next-level-backstage>)

Published: 2022-09-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [Backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backstage.md>), [Humane Registry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/humane-registry.md>), [internal developer portal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internal-developer-portal.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backstage.md>), [developer-portal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-portal.md>), [devxp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devxp.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [humane-registry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/humane-registry.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [software-delivery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-delivery.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

SoundCloud describes migrating its internal Services Directory, a humane registry for software ownership and system relationships, to the open source Backstage developer portal. The migration was intended to preserve the registry's core value while adding capabilities and improving software delivery and engineering effectiveness.

## Source excerpt

We've seen considerable adoption of our internal humane registry, Services Directory, since we sanitized ownership definition and introduced...