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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
backstage
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# Enable Developers on SAP BTP with Terraform, GitHub Actions and Backstage
apiVersion: scaffolder.backstage.io/v1beta3 # https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-catalog/descriptor-format#kind-template kind: Template metadata: name: sample-btpsubaccount-remote-template title: Remote Template for SAP BTP Subaccount Setup description: A remote template that creates a basic SAP BTP Subaccount setup tags: - sap - btp - basic - javascript spec: owner: user:guest type: service
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APIMatic SDKs in Backstage Developer Portal
Backstage is an open-source platform developed by Spotify for managing the entire lifecycle of developer infrastructure, including services, APIs, documentation, and more. Backstage streamlines the development process through its centralized and customizable platform, offering a unified dashboard that consolidates information on projects, services, and infrastructure. Acting as a service catalog enhances transparency by allowing teams to document and discover internal services easily. Backstage's extensible architecture supports a robust plugin ecosystem, enabling teams to tailor the platform to their specific workflows and preferences. The platform promotes collaboration, accelerates onboarding through standardized documentation, and integrates seamlessly with various DevOps tools.
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
It’s also well understood that having a k8s cluster is not enough to make developers able to host their services - you need a devops team to work with them, using tools like delivery pipelines, Helm, kustomize, infra as code, service mesh, ingress, secrets management, key management - the list goes on! Developer Portals like Backstage, Port and Cortex have started to emerge to help manage some of this complexity.
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Ask HN: How do you organize software documentation at work?
We use Confluence and markdown files in GitHub. I think we are moving a lot of our docs to Backstage [0] soon.
One process that ends up being really valuable for documentation purposes is our "Architecture Review Documents". This is a standard document that team leads fill out before starting work on a new Saga/Epic/Feature/whatever. It includes the scope and business value of a new feature or large block of work, high level technical architecture of implementation, the impact on existing database schemas and service APIs, etc. This document is presented in a meeting with technical leadership in our organization who deep dive on the topic and explore potential pitfalls in the plan.
The document and recording of that meeting live on forever, and this information is very useful when getting acquainted with a certain part of our product/codebase. You are able to read and hear clearly the intention of a certain service or module, and you can identify several relevant points of contact to ask questions to.
[0] https://backstage.io/
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Tools used by the top 1% of Platform Engineers and their Commercial Open Source Alternatives
Check the Backstage repo on GitHub
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10 open source tools that platform, SRE and DevOps engineers should consider in 2024.
Backstage - An open platform for building developer portals. [Internal Developer Portal]
- Backstage: An open platform for building developer portals
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Champion Building - How to successfully adopt a developer tool
So you've just bought a new platform tool? Maybe it's Hashicorp Vault? Snyk? Backstage? You’re excited about all of the developer experience, security and other benefits you're about to unleash on your company—right? But wait…
- Terraform Self-Service platform / Internal Developer Platform solutions
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Developer productivity for fun and profit - Part 2
The idea is to have a central point where people can find standards, documentation, and designs. The team can do this with a specialized tool like Backstage, Confluence, Github, Google Docs, or some internal implementation. The software is not the most important thing here, but having an easy way to find what is needed for the person to be more productive.
cookiecutter
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Ask HN: How do you bootstrap your software projects?
Sometimes I use this to abstract boilerplate https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter
It can use a repo as a template.
It supports some interactive questions to choose options but mostly it is jinja templates.
Having libraries would be another option.
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FastStream: Python's framework for Efficient Message Queue Handling
Install the cookiecutter package using the following command:
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Template for Django Projects
Consider taking a look at cookiecutter to generate projects from templates. There is also cookiecutter-django. As for your environment variables you should have an example .env file containing all the environment variables required by your project (without setting them) that can be safely pushed into your repository for you and other developers to copy into the actual .env file that'll be used by your project (add this file to .gitignore)
- Rmarkdown/Github project organization question
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Python Cookiecutter: Streamline Template Projects for Enhanced Developer Experience
The Python Cookiecutter library revolutionizes project development by offering streamlined approach to creating template projects and improving developer experience.
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What do you use to generate Terraform/Grunt files at scale?
We use cookie cutter templates (the Python project, https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter ), we prompt for the module & version etc
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A Python package that has a basic app setup inside it
Why not use cookiecutter or a similar tool designed for making these sorts of project templates?
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Sub library with useful code
Is it common? I don't know. Is it useful? Absolutely. There is a tool called cookiecutter that allows you to define your own setup. For example, my cookiecutter setup for a python library is here. You can see what it's like by first installing the cookiecutter cli and then running
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New tool: Souce code generator from a given template
Also cookiecutter.
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Introducing Visual Cookiecutter: a web UI for instanciating cookiecutter templates
Visual Cookiecutter enhances the functionality of cookiecutter by offering unique features such as required fields, conditional input parameters, optional descriptions, and the ability to fix mistakes easily. This package seamlessly integrates with cookiecutter so that all existing templates work out-of-the-box.
What are some alternatives?
atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation
copier - Library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates.
api-management-developer-portal - Developer portal provided by the Azure API Management service.
Jinja2 - A very fast and expressive template engine.
C4-PlantUML - C4-PlantUML combines the benefits of PlantUML and the C4 model for providing a simple way of describing and communicate software architectures
try - Dead simple CLI tool to try Python packages - It's never been easier! :package:
gitops-flux-helm
bashplotlib - plotting in the terminal
Clutch - Fast iOS executable dumper
qbatch
awx - AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.