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Backstage, a CNCF project and Spotify's open-source framework, holds approximately 89% of the Internal Developer Portal (IDP) market, deployed at over 3,400 organizations and serving more than two million developers. Despite its market share dominance, the average internal adoption rate for self-hosted Backstage instances is around 10%. This low developer engagement highlights a disparity between framework adoption by organizations and actual daily usage by engineers, prompting discussions about the viability of self-hosting developer portals.

Developers are often presented with internal tools that, despite organizational investment, fail to integrate into their daily workflows.