BackstageCon NA 2024
2024-11-12
Salt Lake City, United States
[BackstageCon NA 2023, BackstageCon NA 2024, BackstageCon NA 2025]
who it's for
platform engineers, developer experience engineers, engineering managers, site reliability engineers, security engineers, enterprise architects, developer advocates
topics
Backstage backend system 1.0; plugin migration and certification; catalog-info.yaml generation; backstage/actions yarn-install optimization; no-code plugin installers; LLM agent tool calling with Backstage; OpenAPI wrapServer contract testing; OPA policies with signed attestations; modular search collators migration; DORA cycle time instrumentation in Backstage; managed Backstage Portal (Spotify Portal); scaffolder and plugin generator automation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Balaji Sivasubramanian, Avantika Iyer | 09m |
Conference opens with concrete status: Backstage marks its fourth year and reports 3,000 adopters and 200+ plugins, now shipping Backstage at version 1.32 and… | ||
| How to Grow Your Internal Backstage Community with Some Ope... | Djamaile Rahamat, Mitchell Hentges | 24m |
Backstage community tooling and concrete fixes that save time: using backstage/actions yarn-install drops yarn install from 1m27s to 13s; running… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Keeping the Show Running: Backstage Maintenance from a Platform Eng... | Paul Schultz | 06m |
Backstage maintenance focuses on concrete tactics: managing npm dependency breakages with version pinning, automating safe upgrades with Renovate (team reports… | ||
| The Future is Backstage: Building a Better Platform from... | Tom Barkan-Benkler | 05m |
Spotify describes Backstage powering 3,000 companies and cites a Google report finding teams using IDPs like Backstage are 10% more productive. The platform… | ||
| AI-Enhanced Internal Developer Portals: The Future of Platform... | Ben Wilcock | 07m |
Claim: enterprises already embed generative AI into developer workflows with 83% of orgs using generative AI, and 37% having fine‑tuned or built models while… | ||
| Backstage in the Board Room: What Makes a Digital Portal Helpful for C-Level... | Olivier Liechti | 32m |
Two enterprise case studies (Romont Energy and CNP Seos) show Backstage extended into an executive portal rather than just an IDP platform. Team builds include… | ||
| Empowering LLMs with Backstage: Broader Insights Driven by the Developer Portal | Niall Thomson | 33m |
Backstage hosts an LLM-backed agent that calls existing plugins as tools to fetch live catalog, Kubernetes and securityHub data, reasons over a high-severity… | ||
| Panel: Insights from Internal Developer Portal Rollouts in Large Enterprises | Balaji Sivasubramanian, Srinivas Peri, Serena Chechile, Jay Cox, Lilit Yenokyan | 47m |
Large enterprises report concrete claims, tools, and outcomes: Backstage-based IDPs centralize discovery, reduce duplicate tooling (Roku found many redundant… | ||
| The Lego Approach: Leveraging Reusability for a Seamless... | Ashna Malhotra, Mesut Yilmazyildirim | 25m |
Booking.com consolidates dozens of internal tools into Backstage, creates a shared plugin and a library of ~40 reusable components, and wires company theming… | ||
| Centralized Compliance: Automated Governance Inside of Backstage... | Amber Beasley, Daniel Hagen | 19m |
Backstage is extended with reusable front-end and back-end plugins (published on npm) that pull GitHub pipeline attestations into entity pages and a new… | ||
| Scale the Adoption and Delivery of Backend Plugins Using the New Bac... | Avantika Iyer, Emma Indal | 27m |
Shows how the Backstage new backend system lets teams migrate each search collator into its own backend module, register it via the addCollator extension point… | ||
| DevEx and Productivity Metrics on Backstage - Do's and Don'ts | Yishai Beeri | 30m |
Describes pushing DORA cycle time and devx signals into Backstage, warns against “slap-on” dashboards and wrong metrics like LOC, and gives concrete fixes… | ||
| Backstage Adoption Deep Dive - Navigating the Pitfalls | Himanshu Mishra | 31m |
Backstage setup happens day one with a secure URL and sign‑in, week one builds a high‑impact automation to eliminate a common monthly ticket, month one adds ~5… | ||
| IDPs For The Rest of Us: Maximizing Impact When You Aren't a Tech Giant | Eric Irwin | 28m |
Company uses Backstage for three years to turn platform work into measurable wins: a small platform team (five engineers part time, company ~65 engineers… | ||
| Lightning Talk: How the Radius Dashboard Leverages Backstage to Build... | Will Tsai, Ryan Nowak | 13m |
Radius builds a developer dashboard on Backstage that renders an application graph showing deployed architecture (example: a 10‑microservice app) by calling… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Countercultural: Backstage for Consultants | Lizzie Salita | 10m |
Booz Allen Hamilton runs a two‑year Backstage instance that combines community plugins, Spotify RBAC plugin, and a few custom plugins, has grown to 2,000… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Bryan Landes | 03m |
Fast-paced logistical wrap-up listing sponsors, next events, and contribution opportunities: Red Hat and Spotify plus Coder, Cortex, Harness, Port, and Ro are… | ||
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