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Backstage access: Spotify’s dev tools side-hustle is growing legs | TechCrunch

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Spotify has been quietly building out a developer tooling business.

Backstage helps companies build customized “internal developer portals” (IDPs), bringing order to their infrastructure chaos.

Spotify Portal for Backstage in beta is now edging toward general availability in coming months .

Spotify also teased a couple of new premium plugins at KubeCon , including AiKA (“ AI knowledge assistant’s) chatbot.

Spotify will have more to say about Confidence later this year .

It's a response to an effort to ensure that Backstage is the industry standard IDP.

Backstage will be open-sourced in 2020 , but the premium stuff that’s now following is really to ensure it sticks.

“We're not just trying to cover costs. At the end of the day , we have a lot of value trapped inside Spotify right now.”.