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.

Related jobs
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

Matching moments

Presenting live web scraping demos at a developer conference
01:57 MIN

Presenting live web scraping demos at a developer conference

Tech with Tim at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024

Designing a scalable architecture for data collection
03:54 MIN

Designing a scalable architecture for data collection

Cracking the Code: Decoding Anti-Bot Systems!

Navigating the complexities of modern web scraping
03:28 MIN

Navigating the complexities of modern web scraping

How to scrape modern websites to feed AI agents

A career journey and an interactive game demo
02:54 MIN

A career journey and an interactive game demo

Fun with PaaS – How to use Cloud Foundry and its uniqueness in creative ways

Implementing a developer portal with Spotify Backstage
09:59 MIN

Implementing a developer portal with Spotify Backstage

Building Developer Experience - Brick by Brick

Automating browser workflows with AI-powered tools
03:32 MIN

Automating browser workflows with AI-powered tools

WeAreDevelopers LIVE: Scammer Payback with Python, Grok Goes Unhinged, The Future of Chromium and mo

Showcasing a powerful multi-protocol scraper
01:23 MIN

Showcasing a powerful multi-protocol scraper

Data is Key: Scraping Metadata from Websites

Implementing tools to enhance the developer workflow
01:56 MIN

Implementing tools to enhance the developer workflow

Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?

Featured Partners

Related Videos

See all videos
Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company
28:16

Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company

Alexandra Petri

Building a large, complex product from the ground up with typescript & Atomic Design:lessons learned
28:13

Building a large, complex product from the ground up with typescript & Atomic Design:lessons learned

Nathalia Rus

Web development best practices in 2021
51:10

Web development best practices in 2021

Laurie Voss

Microfrontends at Scale
43:20

Microfrontends at Scale

Josh Goldberg

Data is Key: Scraping Metadata from Websites
21:17

Data is Key: Scraping Metadata from Websites

Lars Kölker

Build and Deploy a Fullstack App with Open Source Tooling
25:53

Build and Deploy a Fullstack App with Open Source Tooling

Noam Honig

To New Frontiers: The Future of Frontend Development
26:00

To New Frontiers: The Future of Frontend Development

Rainer Hahnekamp

Introducing a Digital Service Catalog for speed and scale
20:28

Introducing a Digital Service Catalog for speed and scale

Bastian Heilemann & Akash Manjunath

Related Articles

View all articles
Daniel Cranney, Chris Heilmann
Dev Digest 215: Agent Memory, JS2026, Googlebot Analysis & Canvas❤️HTML
Inside last week’s Dev Digest 215 . 🗿 Make AI talk like a caveman 🧠 A guide to context engineering for LLMs 🤖 Simon Willison on agentic engineering 🔐 Axios supply chain attack post mortem 🛡️ Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection 🎨 HTML in c...
Dev Digest 215: Agent Memory, JS2026, Googlebot Analysis & Canvas❤️HTML
Christina Schaireiter
Why Attend a Developer Event?
Modern software engineering moves too fast for documentation alone. Attending a world-class event is about shifting from tactical execution to strategic leadership. Skill Diversification: Break out of your specific tech stack to see how the industry...
Why Attend a Developer Event?

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.