Keynote: Providing a Curated Experience for Developers with Backstage

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Claims that adopting Backstage and embedding curated tooling into Tanzu Application Platform cuts developer friction, enforces security, and raises velocity. VMware builds on Backstage plugins repackaged and hardened rather than reinventing portals, adds IDE-first tooling integration and automatic scanning for vulnerabilities, and layers role-based controls for dev and secops. Customers report massive legacy sprawl — tens of thousands of custom code paths — and the hardened Backstage instances scale to regulated enterprises and actually work in production.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:06Developer Experience
3. 3:07Developer Productivity
4. 4:26Golden Paths
5. 6:13Security
6. 8:00VMwares Journey
7. 11:56Outro

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