# Solution Overview 🎯

## Vision

Build a self-service developer portal that automates project creation and standardizes infrastructure setup across the organization.

## Core Requirements

### **Functional Requirements**

* **Project Creation**
  * Create new projects from templates
  * Configure project CI/CD and infrastructure
  * Automate repository setup and permissions
  * Set up required platform integrations (Sentry, Datadog, etc.)
* **Platform Features**
  * Centralized API documentation
  * Service discovery

### **Non-functional Requirements**

* **Performance**
  * Reduce project setup time from 1 week to under 2 hours
  * Handle concurrent project creation requests
* **Scalability**
  * Support 200+ engineers
  * Handle multiple project templates
  * Scale across different engineering teams
* **Security**
  * Enterprise SSO Integration
  * Role based access control
* **Maintainability**
  * Maintainable template system
  * Standardized infrastructure patterns
  * Clear documentation
* **Reliability**
  * Consistent project creation
  * Error handling and recovery

## Why Backstage?

* Wrote a tech brief that included a decision matrix with the popular Developer Portal platforms
* Backstage emerged as the optimal choice based on:
  * Open source and free
  * Great documentation
  * Intuitive UI/UX
  * 100+ existing plugins
  * Strong developer experience focus

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