Onboarding is difficult, finding information can be a pain, collaborating across teams or domains is hard, and no one likes context-switching between cloud portals, CI/CD Tooling, and whatnot. This and other modern frustrations are causing friction in the day-to-day lives of developers. This friction is taking away pleasure, and effectiveness, and will eventually result in bad code, and people leaving or being burnt out. Investing in Developer Happiness is key, but where to begin? Should you build yet another portal? Implement that new DevOps platform? Try that Inner Source thing? In this session, we're discussing all of this and taking a look at Backstage, an Open Source platform you can use to build an Internal Developer Portal and massively improve your developer experience. Because happy developers write happy code.
