BackstageCon Europe 2024
2024-03-19
Paris, France
[BackstageCon Europe 2024, BackstageCon Europe 2025, BackstageCon Europe 2026]
as the organisers put it
BackstageCon Europe has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on BackstageCon’s YouTube channel. Review session slides from…
who it's for
platform engineers, Backstage plugin authors, engineering managers, developer experience engineers, frontend developers, site reliability engineers, security engineers
topics
dynamic Backstage plugins; declarative integration model; fine-grained RBAC plugin; OpenAPI code generation; WebAssembly plugin support; localization with Material UI; accessibility audits with Lighthouse CI; SBOM and supply chain scanning; orchestrator long-running workflows; multi-tenant Backstage architecture; Backstage theming and customization; plugin catalog and publishing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Helen Gruel, Balaji Sivasubramanian | 14m |
BackstageCon opens with concrete milestones: the project reports 13,000 members across 52 countries, more than 150 plugins and about 1,500 serial contributors… | ||
| Let’s Go Backstage: End to End IDP Tips & Tricks for Platform Engineers | Oshrat Nir, Guy Menahem | 25m |
Backstage adoption claims measurable impact: 2× code changes and a 17% cycle time decrease at a reported user, with demos showing inventory + cluster scan +… | ||
| Accelerating Backstage Adoption in Enterprises | Balaji Sivasubramanian | 07m |
Red Hat ships an rbac plugin that configures roles, user/group bindings and permissions via a Backstage UI and plugs into the Backstage permissions framework… | ||
| The Future is Backstage: Building a better platform from the... | Mike Lewis | 05m |
Describes concrete platform changes: an extensible permission system (Spotify’s rback plugin is one implementation) that solves cross‑Backstage access control… | ||
| Level-up your software standards with Backstage | John Laban | 06m |
Backstage plus an OpsLevel Backstage standards plugin codifies production-readiness rules into a reusable rubric with reliability/security/scalability… | ||
| Win with AI through Engineering Effectiveness: Insights from... | Corey Eastman | 06m |
A Forrester-backed survey of 400 engineering decision-makers finds 59% report insufficient engineering agility, tying that to weak alignment with business… | ||
| Enable Localization in Backstage | Christophe Fargette | 04m |
Shows how to enable localization in Backstage by adding locales to the UI layer and wrapping components so dates and currency render in the right format and… | ||
| Backstage Plugins Made Simple: No Rebuild Needed | Tom Coufal | 11m |
Backstage adds a way to install plugins without rebuilding containers by combining dynamic plugins with declarative integration: backend dynamic side‑loading… | ||
| How We Improved Accessibility Across 10+ Backstage Plugins and How... | Emma Indal | 09m |
Audit across 10+ Backstage plugins uses Lighthouse to find 106 accessibility issues, of which about 76% resolved so far; fixes include color-contrast updates… | ||
| Scaling the Stage: Managing 200+ Plugins & Thousands of Engineers | Vincenzo Scamporlino | 24m |
Spotify describes running 200+ plugins in one ecosystem supporting thousands of engineers and compares three concrete scaling choices: replicate the full… | ||
| A Front... | Emma Indal, Daniel Laird, Levi Ferreira, Bogdan Nechyporenko, Alexandre Blondot | 31m |
Large orgs report concrete wins and pitfalls: one portal reaches 60% daily adoption and 2.5k monthly users after starting with search, catalog and a simple… | ||
| The Power of OpenAPI - Backstage’s New Project Area | Aramis Sennyey | 10m |
Backstage gains a new OpenAPI tooling area that generates typed Express routers, does request validation, and produces an auto-generated client wired to the… | ||
| From Zero to a Top Contributor: An Open Source Success Story | André Wanlin | 06m |
Journey begins with zero TypeScript, React, or Node experience and a company running a fork on Azure DevOps Server; first moves are detailed issue reports that… | ||
| An Easier Path to a Rich Catalog | Sam Blausten, Irma Solakovic | 26m |
Claims a writable catalog where metadata edits update entities immediately via a fragments API that stores small JSON objects in a new database table and a… | ||
| Can It Be Done? Building Fine-Grained Access Control for Back... | Peter Macdonald, Anders Eknert | 26m |
Shows a working Backstage permissions backend that swaps TypeScript checks for Rego policies, querying a local sidecar OPA binary ~30MB to make decisions and… | ||
| Architecting Multi-Tenant Backstage Instances in a Shared... | Debabrata Panigrahi, Vikyath Harekal | 24m |
Proposes deploying separate Backstage instances per customer inside a single Kubernetes cluster, using namespace isolation and per-instance app-config mounted… | ||
| Streamlining Cloud Adoption with Backstage: A Developer's Journey | Bharat Arora, Onur Dinçol | 30m |
Booking.com uses Backstage as a plugin-driven portal that turns onboarding steps into automated flows: self-service account provisioning buttons create cloud… | ||
| Assembling a Bigger Band: Backstage Plugins in Any Language with WebAssembly | Victor Adossi | 37m |
Claims a working framework that turns language-native code into Backstage plugins by compiling languages like Rust into Rust -> wasm32-wasi binaries… | ||
| Theming Backstage: Make It Your Own! | Tim Hansen | 26m |
Shows how to theme Backstage by using the backstage theme package and Material UI utilities to build a custom theme with createUnifiedTheme, override the color… | ||
| How Did Backstage Make 500+ Developers Happy in a Highly Regulated Enterprise | Thomas Grønbæk | 28m |
Bankdata deploys Backstage as a single instance to standardize developer journeys across ~100 product teams and 500+ developers, building a developer portal… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Helen Greul, Balaji Sivasubramanian | 03m |
Announcement of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Nov 12–15 2024 in Salt Lake City, with a staffed presence at the project Pavilion Wed–Thu afternoons… | ||
| DevOps, 12-Factor and Platform Engineering | Ryan Garrett | 08m |
Argues that applying the Theory of Constraints to software shows the only winners increase throughput and lower cost, and that 12-Factor practices (single… | ||
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