Alexander Lichter

From clicks to cribs - How to find your dream home with web scraping

Does moving between teams feel like joining a new company? A digital service catalog can unify disparate tech stacks without sacrificing team autonomy.

From clicks to cribs - How to find your dream home with web scraping
#1about 6 minutes

The organizational chaos of fragmented technology stacks

When teams independently choose different technologies for similar products, it creates fragmentation, decision paralysis, knowledge gaps, and difficult onboarding.

#2about 5 minutes

Introducing the digital service catalog's goals and features

A digital service catalog provides a centralized inventory of assets, a single pane of glass over tooling, and golden paths to balance governance with team autonomy.

#3about 1 minute

Benefits of a decentralized, team-owned catalog

A catalog built on decentralized ownership enables easy team onboarding, better architectural planning, integrated security management, and ensures information is always up-to-date.

#4about 2 minutes

Modeling components and relationships using Backstage

Spotify's Backstage provides the tooling to model domains, systems, components, APIs, and ownership structures within the service catalog.

#5about 2 minutes

Establishing a centralized vs decentralized governance model

Governance is balanced by centralizing domains, naming conventions, and golden paths while decentralizing the management of individual components and documentation.

#6about 1 minute

Integrating the catalog with enterprise architecture

The digital service catalog acts as a support tool that enriches enterprise architecture for strategic IT decisions without replacing existing systems.

#7about 7 minutes

Key takeaways on implementing a service catalog

Successfully implementing a digital service catalog in-house depends more on fostering a culture of willingness and transparency than on complex tooling.

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