Ryan welcomes Pia Nilsson, GM for Backstage and head of developer experience at Spotify, to discuss the evolution and adoption of Backstage, the impact of AI on dev experience, and how Spotify approaches platform engineering and standardization to help teams solve for specific needs.&nbsp;Episode notes:&nbsp;<a href="https://backstage.spotify.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Backstage</a> is an open-source IDP by Spotify that reduces everyday friction, cognitive overhead, and operational toil for developers.We <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/09/16/hypergrowth-headaches-ep-485/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously talked</a> to the Backstage team in 2022.Poor Ryan. If only he had Backstage at <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/21/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-do-what-backstage-does-for-free/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his last job</a>.&nbsp;You know what makes Backstage even better? Our <a href="https://stackoverflowteams.help/en/articles/9692515-backstage-integration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stack Overflow for Teams integration</a>.&nbsp;Connect with Pia on<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pia-nilsson-02b47b1/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> LinkedIn</a>.<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/606662/markus-pscheidt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Markus Pscheidt</a> gets today’s shoutout for winning the Populist badge with their answer to<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59592118/dynamic-tag-values-for-the-counter-metric-in-micrometer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Dynamic tag values for the Counter metric in Micrometer</a>.<a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/09/26/getting-backstage-in-front-of-a-shifting-dev-experience/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TRANSCRIPT</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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