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How Spotify Built Honk: From Backstage to Agentic Coding at Scale

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Foundations for an Agentic Transformation

When Gustav Söderström, Co-CEO of Spotify, mentioned Honk on the most recent earnings call, it signaled more than an AI milestone — it reflected a long-term, strategic bet on our development platforms. In this webinar, senior staff engineers Stefan Särne and Max Charas walk through how Spotify’s investment in Backstage created the structured, governable environment that makes agentic-first coding and complex, large-scale AI automations not just possible, but routine. From Backstage to Fleet Management to Honk, see the full progression — and what it means for your own development platform.
what you’ll learn
How a dev portal originally built for humans now enables AI at scale
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Understand how our Backstage Software Catalog — which tracks ownership, dependencies, and other component metadata across thousands of repositories — gives AI agents the structured context they need to navigate your ecosystem on their own.
Standardization to complex automations in just 3 steps: Backstage → Fleet Management → Honk
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See how Spotify evolved from golden paths, to deterministic code transformations, to background coding agents capable of building new features in one shot — or executing complex fleet-wide migrations.
Making non-deterministic coding agents predictable
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Learn how Honk's verification loop wraps every coding task in a harness of linting, compiling, and testing — feeding errors back to the agent to self-correct within a set number of iterations — so that even across a thousand repos, every change lands with a green build and passing tests.
Featuring
Stefan Särne
Developer Experience, Spotify
Max Charas
Core Infrastructure, Spotify
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