BackstageCon Europe 2025
2025-04-01
London, United Kingdom
[BackstageCon Europe 2024, BackstageCon Europe 2025, BackstageCon Europe 2026]
who it's for
platform engineers, developer experience engineers, engineering managers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, ml engineers
topics
Backstage scaffolder templates; plugin development and ecosystem; software catalog ownership; observability with OpenTelemetry; Argo Workflows integration; monorepo tooling with Bazel; exemplar template repositories; security event auditing (Backstage Auditor); push-based ingestion via GitHub events; managed Backstage portals (Roadie/Portal); AI model cataloging on Backstage; Backstage backend performance and scaling
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Balaji Sivasubramanian, Bryan Landes, Blair Fraser | 08m |
Conference opens with community milestones and practical product updates: Backstage hits five years since the 2020 CNCF contribution, 50% in production among… | ||
| Unlocking Backstage’s Potential: Driving Adoption and Maturity With Your Develope... | Stanley Nicholl | 22m |
Backstage adoption scales when developer communities take ownership: enterprises report 2x code shipped, 66% reduction in onboarding and even $10M annual… | ||
| Lightning Talk: We Built a Unified AI Asset Catalog in Backstage | John Collier | 10m |
Built a Backstage-based AI asset catalog that models inference servers as components and individual models as resources, hosted on an OpenShift cluster (GPU… | ||
| The Future is Backstage | Pia Nilsson | 06m |
Backstage claims wide adoption with a survey of 180 companies showing 67% market share overall and 89% when excluding homegrown IDPs, and it runs internally at… | ||
| How to Succeed with Backstage | David Tuite | 06m |
Roadie delivers a turnkey developer portal on Backstage with scorecards, RBAC, a flexible data model and managed upgrades; customers show concrete wins… | ||
| Implementing Unified Observability: IDP on Backstage wit... | Ekansh Gupta, Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava | 23m |
Shows how Backstage backend (Node.js) is instrumentation.js with node auto-instrumentation to emit traces and metrics to an OpenTelemetry Collector → Signals… | ||
| Driving Monorepo Adoption With Backstage | Chau Vu | 28m |
Company runs a monorepo on AWS and Kubernetes with Bazel, CDK and Terraform/OpenTofu, and faces migrating hundreds of existing apps. Backstage powers Backstage… | ||
| What Do Cars, Clothes, Wardrobes and MRI Machines Have in Common? | Scott Guymer, Remi Higuchi, Tina Vincent, Jan Magnusson, Martin Wänerskär | 40m |
Large enterprises (Philips, H&M, IKEA, Volvo Cars) describe concrete wins and hard choices while adopting Backstage: automations and templates reduce setup… | ||
| High Performance Backstage for High Performing Organizations | Avantika Iyer, Jack Palmer | 19m |
Spotify runs Backstage for 50,000 components and 100,000 APIs with a monorepo hosting ~200 custom plugins, and moves from polling to a push-based ingestion… | ||
| Exemplar-y Backstage Templates | Brent Swisher | 17m |
Claims that converting Backstage scaffolder templates into exemplar templates — standalone repos instead of embedded Nunjucks files — lets standard tooling… | ||
| Security Behind the Curtains With Event Monitoring | Paul Schultz | 24m |
Backstage Auditor v1.36 is a built‑in service that captures API accesses, config changes and outcomes with a simple API: createEvent / success / fail and… | ||
| From Click To Chaos: Linking Argo Workflows and Backstage for Automate... | Chris Heisz, Luke Beamish | 18m |
Neo4j links Argo Workflows to Backstage scaffolder so a single portal click spawns reusable Argo workflow templates across more than 1,000 Kubernetes clusters… | ||
| Fixing Resource Labeling: Tying Infrastructure Metadata To Backstage With Ter... | Michael Reichenbach | 25m |
Shows how Backstage becomes the single source of truth for cloud labels by wiring the Backstage catalog API into Terraform via the… | ||
| The Hitchhiker's Guide To Upgrading Backstage: Don't Panic! | Debabrata Panigrahi, Jenil Jain | 20m |
Maintains Backstage for hundreds of customers and upgrades roughly quarterly, using yarn backstage-cli and the upgrader to automate changes but running a… | ||
| Lightning Talk: How Silverflow Uses Backstage To Streamline Engineering and Compli... | Daniel O'Neill | 09m |
Silverflow uses Backstage and SoundCheck to centralize service data and automate code-health and compliance workflows across ~100 microservices and ~100… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Balaji Sivasubramanian, Bryan Landes, Blair Fraser | 03m |
Announcements list actionable next steps: State of Backstage Wednesday 4:15 and Contrib Thursday 11:00 are scheduled sessions with maintainers; project… | ||
| Scaling Enterprise Platform Engineering with Backstage | Balaji Sivasubramanian | 06m |
Case study of a large multinational bank reports 15,000+ support tickets per month before adopting Backstage and a move to a unified portal that onboards 5,000… | ||
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