CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

If you're already running a Backstage based IDP, it makes a lot of sense to use it for showing dev productivity metrics and developer experience signals as well. Before you start simply pushing DORA metrics to your IDP, you might want to look at some common gotchas. This talk with review some pitfalls around exposing dev productivity metrics in backstage, and how to avoid them. We will cover best practices for maximizing the value and actionability of what you're sending to the IDP. We'll talk about how to use benchmarks to anchor your data with context; leveraging a/b and control groups to make a point; and how to enable drilling down to learn more about a data point, and how to enable the various personas that will consume these metrics. Finally, we'll talk about where to get started and how to then take it to the next level.