BackstageCon Europe 2026
2026-03-23
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[BackstageCon Europe 2024, BackstageCon Europe 2025, BackstageCon Europe 2026]
as the organisers put it
BackstageCon Europe 2026 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from speakers…
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Balaji Sivasubramanian, André Wanlin | 07m |
Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Mumbai, India (18-19 June, 2026), Yokohama, Japan (29-30 July, 2026), and Shanghai… | ||
| Our Journey To a Unified Developer Experience With Backstage | Symbat Nurbay, Xicu Piñera | 23m |
Booking.com converts Backstage into a centralized developer portal called BStage that connects 1.5k users to 45 custom tools and a 400k-item software catalog… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Philosophy Meets Backstage: An Unlikely Path To a Plugin | Mathilde Ançay | 11m |
A six-week internship at Avalia System yields a shipped Backstage plugin: a satisfaction tracker built with React and TypeScript, integrated into the company’s… | ||
| AI Can't Use Data it Doesn't Have | David Tuite | 05m |
Roadie ingests users and infrastructure into the Backstage catalog (Slack, GitHub, PagerDuty) and auto‑creates relationships so an AI agent can traverse that… | ||
| Your Backstage, Our Grunt Work: Migrating to Sp... | Joe Combopiano | 06m |
A demo shows a migration agent that inspects an open-source Backstage instance, reads plugin lists and configs, and outputs the exact plugins and registry… | ||
| Building an IDP in 5 Minutes Not 5 Months | Matar Peles | 06m |
Live demo builds a working internal developer portal in about five minutes using Port and its MCP to generate blueprints, map a data model for a fleet of 200… | ||
| Divide & Collaborate: Creating Scalable and Healthy Backstage Ba... | Krzysztof Janota, Dusan Askovic | 26m |
ING uses Backstage to replace 60 plus internal portals with a single entry mandated by the Technology Standards Board and supports 15,000 developers across… | ||
| Agentic Backstage: How To Manage an AI Software Catalog | Sam Nixon | 23m |
Roadie details building a catalogue-driven agent platform: open sourced vector database and RAG layer, produced MCP servers and ingestion providers, and used… | ||
| Panel: Building a Healthy Backstage Plugins Ecosystem | Paul S, Hope H, Heikki H, Peter M, Aramis Sennyey | 34m |
Backstage plugin contributors report concrete pain points and fixes: confusing multi-package architecture and routing makes onboarding slow, so the community… | ||
| Observability for Your Internal Developer Platform: Instrumenting Bac... | Ekansh Gupta, Shivay Lamba | 26m |
Backstage backend gets Node.js auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry exporting traces and metrics to an OTel Collector and visualized in Grafana/Prometheus… | ||
| Forget Rebuilding, Install Plugins at Runtime | David Festal, Jon Koops | 31m |
Claim: avoid rebuilding Backstage for each plugin by loading prebuilt plugin bundles at startup using the backend dynamic feature service, the frontend dynamic… | ||
| From the Ranch(er) to the Dev: A Case Study About Simplifying K8s Cluster Setup Wit... | Alex Speranza | 14m |
Automates Rancher cluster onboarding with Backstage and GitLab: a custom entity provider pulls clusters into the catalog, Backstage templates instantiate an… | ||
| Think Backstage! Beyond Plugins | Debabrata Panigrahi, Jenil Jain | 28m |
Built a catalog enrichment platform that continuously pulls from GitHub, Harness CD, PagerDuty, Datadog, Sentry and Jira, writes nine custom annotations, and… | ||
| Unlocking the Catalog: Providing a Platform CLI for Backstage | Sebastian Poxhofer | 23m |
N26 builds an internal CLI called PCLI that lets CI and terminals call Backstage APIs without manual curl and devtools token hacks, hitting a catalog of… | ||
| Lightning Talk: The Backstage Builder Experience at Adyen | Sander Boumeester | 11m |
Adyen turns Backstage from a barely used POC into a portal used by over 1,000 developers by enabling builders to ship plugins fast and with quality: yarn new… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Balaji Sivasubramanian, André Wanlin | 06m |
Survey results show concrete wins and pain points: stability, integration, extensibility are praised, MCP actions enable programmatic access, contributions are… | ||
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