BackstageCon North America 2022
2022-10-24
Detroit, United States
as the organisers put it
BackstageCon is a one-day conference focused on all things Backstage: an open framework for building developer portals. At BackstageCon, we’ll provide a vendor-neutral space for collaboration and…
who it's for
platform engineers, developer experience engineers, backend engineers, engineering managers, plugin authors, observability engineers, open source contributors
topics
Backstage plugins development; platform plugin CLI (IDP); catalog ingestion at scale; Backstage Tech Insights; event-based analytics API; scaffolder templates and automation; backend framework and createBackend; monitoring integrations (Dynatrace); vulnerability scanning and compliance; IDE-first tooling integration; commercial plugin bundles (Spotify)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Suzanne Daniels, Martina Iglesias Fernandez | 09m |
Overview of Backstage community status and logistics with concrete milestones: the platform reports 400+ adopting companies, recent 1.0 release and security… | ||
| Keynote: Building for Developer Happiness | Dave Zolotusky | 06m |
Spotify announces a paid beta subscription of Spotify plugins for backstage that bundles battle‑tested internal tooling into Backstage, aiming to cut… | ||
| Keynote: Providing a Curated Experience for Developers with Backstage | Valentina Alaria | 12m |
Claims that adopting Backstage and embedding curated tooling into Tanzu Application Platform cuts developer friction, enforces security, and raises velocity… | ||
| The Evolution of Backstage Backends | Patrik Oldsberg, Johan Haals | 28m |
Backstage backend moves from per-install wiring to a framework that wires plugins, offering a single call createBackend instead of nine files and 348 lines… | ||
| Building an Internal Developer Platform with Backstage Plugins | Taras Mankovski | 27m |
Describes a Backstage platform plugin that generates a per-instance CLI binary (IDP) with the Backstage API URL baked in, letting developers run the… | ||
| Enabling Developer Experience Journey in U.S. Bank | Ravikumar Tadikonda, Poonam Garg | 38m |
U.S. Bank adopts Backstage to replace a fragile in‑house CLI scaffolder and to provide a centralized catalog plus tech docs, templates and app insights; the… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Talking in Backstage: How to Navigate the Business and Engineer... | Jorge Lainfiesta | 11m |
Backstage is presented as a framework for building developer portals that boosts discoverability and autonomy, with a practical glossary: software catalog as a… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Building and Contributing Our First Plug-In at TELUS | Isaiah Thiessen | 05m |
TELUS builds and contributes a Dynatrace plugin for Backstage that surfaces recent performance anomalies and synthetic monitoring tied to a Software Catalog… | ||
| Leading Architectural Change with Backstage | Andy Hoffman | 33m |
A fintech that hits Series C and 10x growth describes using Backstage with a Roadie-managed instance plus scaffolder templates and Argo CD/Workflows to turn… | ||
| What is This Tech Insights Anyways? | Jussi Hallila, Irma Solakovic | 28m |
Backstage Tech Insights collects time-series facts from third parties, stores them in a DB (supports sqlite or postgres), and runs computations to produce… | ||
| Measuring Developer Happiness: Analytics for Backstage | Eric Peterson | 26m |
Backstage provides an event‑based Analytics API that actually records developer journeys inside the app so platform teams can stitch deploys, builds, alerts… | ||
| How We Scaled Catalog Ingestion to Hundreds of Thousands of Entities | Damon Kaswell | 39m |
HP Inc. describes ingesting hundreds of thousands of entities into Backstage by building incremental entity providers that page and back off, adding three DB… | ||
| A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Bring Data Visualization in Backstage | Olivier Liechti | 31m |
Shows an end to end pipeline that extracts git history with GitHub Actions, runs server side aggregations with D3, and stores CSV metrics where a raw 2.7 MB… | ||
| What We Learned During Our Journey in Using Backstage at DAZN | Marco Crivellaro | 24m |
DAZN implements Backstage starting March 2021 and launches it October 2021 to centralize a YAML manifest per repo ingested via a custom Manifest API and an… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Suzanne Daniels | 03m |
Day ends with logistics and community calls: links to contribution paths, hectoberfest as a current onboarding window, and the reward of a Holo pin when a pull… | ||
| Keynote: 10x the Effectiveness of Dev Teams with Backstage | David Tuite | 04m |
Claims Backstage can 10x the effectiveness of specific developer tasks by reducing fragmentation and making internal tools discoverable. Concrete components… | ||
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