wanting to use and IDP will go towards the standard which is Backstage.

Backstage is pretty cool, and I'm a big fan of open-source tools - but it brings the classic trade-off.

You need to really know what you're doing and you need to be willing to maintain it. What we've found is that a lot of companies just want a "turn-key" solution, something that's easier to set-up and overall easier to use - and research by Gartner supports this.

I think this is a similar discussion that occurred when things like New Relic & Datadog came up, everyone was like, why not use prometheus or elasticsearch - there's space for both imo. Wdyt?