There is nothing more valuable to an organization than data—about customers, products, opportunities, gaps... the list goes on. We know that to maximize value streams for the business we need to turn a critical eye to data related to how each group operates, including software development teams. In 2019 a group known as the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team set out to find a universally applicable framework for doing just that.

Backstage by Spotify is an open-source platform for building IDPs (internal developer portals). IDPs provide standardization and visibility for engineering teams and managers, as the single source of truth for status, ownership, and metrics on software projects.

In modern engineering teams, lack of comprehensive data visibility can be a major problem. Without full insights into workflows, projects, and processes, issues can arise that create bottlenecks, increase costs, and hamper team productivity. Organizations have long measured company and business metrics, but now leaders want to understand how the engineering teams work from a data- and metrics-oriented approach.

Reporting from multiple engineering systems is crucial for maintaining the high velocity and quality standards required in today’s tech industry. However, creating reports can be challenging due to the need for deep technical expertise and aggregation of many separate systems worth of data.

From the Regulatory Lead to the Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and development team, there are quite a few individuals involved in keeping a Financial Technology (FinTech) company compliant. And there are quite a few regulations to stay in line with: anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC), payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS), the list goes on.