Backstage vs. Cortex vs. configure8 Comparison Chart

Powered by a centralized software catalog, Backstage restores order to your infrastructure and enables your product teams to ship high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy. At Spotify, we've always believed in the speed and ingenuity that comes from having autonomous development teams. But as we learned firsthand, the faster you grow, the more fragmented and complex your software ecosystem becomes. And then everything slows down again. By centralizing services and standardizing your tooling, Backstage streamlines your development environment from end to end. Instead of restricting autonomy, standardization frees your engineers from infrastructure complexity.

configure8 is an internal developer portal that helps helps your developers move faster and build better software with self-serve access to the knowledge and functionality they need. Our solution features a universal catalog that easily organizes all of the sociotechnical knowledge about your team and applications, services, environments, and resources. Customize the data model to integrate any tool and present custom views and calculations. Easy to set-up and maintain, and delivers value. configure8 uses knowledge in the universal catalog to power Scorecards and Self-Serve Actions. Scorecards by configure8 feature the largest library of pre-built checks and the ability to scorecard any custom data as well as create standards tripwires. Self-Serve Actions feature dynamic forms that are contextually aware to minimize developer cognitive load for day 2 operations. We even offer starter templates + custom actions. Deploy on-prem or use our SaaS hosted version. White glove support