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StackSpot
Is a platform created by Zup and Itaú Unibanco that empowers technology teams to operate with speed and security. In addition, it increases team efficiency by centralizing software engineering standards, automating processes, improving the development journey, and enabling application deployment with greater autonomy for developers.
What is a development platform?
According to Gartner, within three years, 80% of software engineering organizations will invest in platform teams and platform engineering strategies. Expectations are so high that platform engineering is among the top 10 technology trends of 2023.
But what is platform engineering?
“Platform engineering improves the productivity and experience of developers by providing self-service capabilities with automated infrastructure operations. It is a growing trend due to its promise of optimizing developer experience and accelerating value delivery to customers by product teams.”
Given the increasing complexity of software environments, there is a need to modernize and support digital transformation initiatives. Development platforms emerge as a solution by providing tools and resources that enable faster, higher-quality deliveries.
What is StackSpot?
StackSpot is an Enterprise Developer Platform (EDP)—a platform designed for enterprise development with a focus on organization, standardization, acceleration, and scalability within technology teams.
It is important to highlight that governance is centralized and adoption standards are well defined, enabling the creation of contextualized work environments that prevent team rework.
In essence, StackSpot allows developers to create and distribute reusable technology components—both for applications and infrastructure.
Within the platform, professionals build their projects in a workspace with pre-configured settings, including predefined architecture and security standards.
Additionally, the platform includes its own Runtime Engine and offers Cloud provisioning services. These capabilities abstract infrastructure complexity, allowing developers to focus their efforts on building and delivering applications that generate value for both customers and the business.
Core areas
They're designed to organize your workflow and empower your team with autonomy and efficiency.
Account
Manage your account and choose who can access your Workspaces and Studios.
Studios
Centralize where you create and distribute Stacks and Plugins.
Workspaces
Get your team members together in one place to work on the same goal.
Service Catalog
Browse the catalog to acess available APIs.
StackSpot Cloud Services
StackSpot Cloud Services is a highly reliable cloud computing platform with a robust ecosystem for deploying and running applications at low cost, while maintaining high standards of quality and security.
In StackSpot, the developer experience is centered around infrastructure and application Stacks and Plugins, providing autonomy, reducing cognitive load, and increasing delivery speed—always prioritizing security, scalability, quality, resilience, and cost efficiency.
How StackSpot works
In practice, team members can easily and securely reuse components created by their colleagues through a proprietary framework that packages and distributes technology components.
Content within the platform is organized in a standardized way, categorized by programming languages, team structures, technological disciplines, and more.
Some of the opportunities enabled by StackSpot include:
Organize technologies, teams, and work environments efficiently with a standardized structure.
Speed up developer onboarding by giving your team easy access to the right components and documentation.
Improve decision-making with usage data and insights about the technologies that power your products.
Access in-depth analytics on technology usage, deployments, and shared infrastructure.
Optimize cloud management with dashboards, reports, and recommendations that drive efficiency.
Enable flexible SSO integration for a secure and seamless authentication experience across the platform.
Advantages of StackSpot
As you can see, StackSpot offers several benefits for both companies and developers:
A contextualized workspace with predefined and centralized configurations ensures high-quality and secure architecture execution.
With standardized and centralized components, it becomes easier to track usage, reducing rework and delays.
StackSpot Cloud Services simplifies the cloud journey, offering faster setup and best practices for more resilient, secure, and cost-effective processes—including FinOps recommendations.
By reusing technological components, teams reduce cognitive load and can focus on developing and evolving business rules with quality and scalability.
StackSpot’s impact on companies
StackSpot stands out as an essential tool for organizations seeking excellence in software development. Here are some real-world perspectives:
Our test automation coverage—across integration, functional, and system tests—was quite low, and we needed to improve it. We approached this by using StackSpot as a project starter, through templates.
Marco Antônio CunhaQA Engineer at iti (Itaú)
We can embed security and observability standards from the start and quickly move past initial setup to implement business features. What used to take weeks now takes minutes.
Rigel AguilarSolutions Architect at Localiza
When development teams gain time and operational efficiency, coordinators can better execute strategies and have more time for parallel initiatives.
Guilherme BerlimHead of Transformation at Itaú Shop
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