Driving Monorepo Adoption With Backstage - Chau Vu, Zipline

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Driving Monorepo Adoption With Backstage - Chau Vu, Zipline

As a company grows, the number of applications to maintain also increases. Using a monorepo is a common solution to address many pain points when scaling up an organization. However, onboarding new customers to a relatively young monorepo while also supporting the migration of hundreds of existing applications, each with its own infrastructure and observability stack, presents significant challenges.

At Zipline, we leverage Backstage's core features, such as Software Catalog and Software Templates, enabling developers to deploy a new application on AWS and Kubernetes within 10 minutes. This includes pre-configured observability in Grafana, as well as on-call features in PagerDuty and Slack, thanks to Backstage's rich ecosystem of plugins.
In this session, we will present the methodology we used to determine the sequence of Backstage features to introduce as we grow our monorepo, and provide tips on how you can apply these practices to meet your organization's specific needs.