At QCon London, Pia Nilsson and Mike Lewis from Spotify led a session explaining how they have evolved the plugin architecture of Backstage to enable easier extensibility.

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At QCon London, Pia Nilsson and Mike Lewis from Spotify discussed the evolution of the plugin architecture of Backstage, highlighting the need for distributed ownership, transferable expertise, and nested extensibility.

QCon London: Spreading Ownership and Delivering Value with Spotify Plugins