<![CDATA[Stories by Heikki Hellgren on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@drodil?source=rss-9b257ecfcf10------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*xUwJHOpcYg99LA2X7nZTLw.jpeg Stories by Heikki Hellgren on Medium https://medium.com/@drodil?source=rss-9b257ecfcf10------2 Medium Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Capturing Knowledge with the Backstage Qeta Plugin]]>

Why StackOverflow-style Q&A belongs in your developer portal, not Teams.

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Everyone writes about onboarding the new hire. Nobody writes about what it does to the team they just joined.

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The plugin ecosystem has hundreds of options. Most of them will cost you more time than they save.

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We set them, automated them, enforced them, and still failed. Here is what we actually learned.

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I watched a colleague squint at their terminal last week, typing git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all from memory. Took them four…

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Declarative delivery is great. Production incidents do not give rats ass about your philosophy.

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I tried to explain my job to my 10-year-old last week. The answer that came out surprised me. Five years ago, I would have said: “I write…

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The file still lives under .github/workflows, but once other repositories depend on it, you are designing an interface.

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The web did not get old. Our patience for boring conventions did.

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Most teams still describe it as pipelines. In practice it has become one of the most important internal automation surfaces they have.

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