Lightning Talk: How the Radius Dashboard Leverages Backstage to Build...
summary
Radius builds a developer dashboard on Backstage that renders an application graph showing deployed architecture (example: a 10‑microservice app) by calling the Radius API; it ships two ways: a bundled Backstage instance and plugins for existing Backstage installs. Implementation uses a frontend plugin, backend plugin, and a reusable graph library, which dramatically accelerates delivery but yields a 950 MB container for the bundled install. Next steps: tighter ties to the Backstage Software Catalog and overlaying observability data.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Radius and team intro
- 1:26What Radius solves
- 3:13Need for dashboard
- 4:37Backstage dashboard build
- 6:20Demo: app graph
- 7:44Backstage integration ways
- 9:08Backstage container size issues
- 9:50Future Backstage catalog
- 10:32Enhancing app graph UI
- 11:14Backstage plugin expansion
- 12:20Call to action
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