BackstageCon NA 2025
as the organisers put it
BackstageCon North America 2025 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…
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | André Wanlin, Bryan Landes, Balaji Sivasubramanian | 07m |
Don't miss out! Join us at our next Flagship Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (23-26 March, 2026). Connect with our… | ||
| ⚡Lightning Talk: From Friction To Flow: How Backstage Transformed Our Security Experience | Christopher Diaz | 09m |
Backstage becomes the backbone of an appsec program by converting catalog data into actionable security views: a software catalog covering 1,000 GitHub repos… | ||
| The Evolving Role of Platform Teams in the AI Era | Justin Reock | 05m |
Platform teams must treat AI rollout as measurable product: DX reports a 7% increase in documentation quality and a typical code maintainability lift of 3%… | ||
| From Portals to Productivity: The Next Leap for Backsta... | Balaji Sivasubramanian | 06m |
Red Hat Developer Hub is a turnkey Backstage distribution (GA Dec 2023) deployed by customers with 15,000 and 20,000 developers, and runs on cloud, on‑prem and… | ||
| Crossing Planes: Backstage + Crossplane for the Ultimate for Platform Magic | Scott Rosenberg, Maria Gabriella Brodi | 25m |
Integration shows Backstage hooked to Crossplane with Argo CD and Kyverno to expose XRD-backed APIs as form-driven components, automatically generate software… | ||
| The Future of DevPortals | Fabrizio S, Gerardo F, Graziano C, Cheryl F, Abhinav D | 33m |
A demonstration shows an IDP builder CLI that spins up Backstage, Keycloak and Argo CD on kind/minikube or cloud in minutes and attendees get a Backstage UI… | ||
| Scaling AI Development With Software Templates in Backstage: Challenges, Lessons, and Integrations | Maysun Faisal, Elson Yuen | 21m |
Shows a Backstage software-template system that scaffolds AI apps with Tekton pipelines, ArgoCD GitOps and a Model Catalog, and demonstrates three concrete… | ||
| How Ericsson Scaled Developer Experience With Backstage | Damien O'Toole, Kieran Egan | 25m |
Ericsson describes standing up a Backstage-based Internal Developer Portal for ~1,260 engineers and scaling to over 4,000 visits per week by automating… | ||
| Cruising the AI Highway: Standardized MCP Deployment and Governance With Backstage | Rob Heckel, Tyler Rothenberg | 25m |
Toyota Connected builds a self-serve MCP scaffolder that spins up standardized MCP servers via GitLab CI, Kustomize, Argo CD, External DNS, External Secrets… | ||
| Growing Pains: Taming the Post-Startup Stage With Backstage | Eli Encarnacion, Mike Spiegel | 24m |
After rapid growth by acquisition the company inventories ~1,200 repos and builds a catalog of 875 components using composable software templates, then runs a… | ||
| Driving Adoption by Generating High Value Notifications in Backstage | Avantika Iyer, André Wanlin | 24m |
Backstage notifications are a core subsystem with a notifications backend and front end, an optional signals backend for real‑time banners/toasts, and built‑in… | ||
| Supercharging Backstage Scaffolder for Workflows | Jonathan Chan, Francis Hackenberger | 27m |
RBC extends Backstage Scaffolder by pushing long‑running state into an external workflow engine and keeping the UI as the front end; they use Temporal for… | ||
| Portal for Backstage: The Ultimate Developer Experience | Stanley Nicholl | 06m |
Spotify Portal is now GA and runs in production for organizations with hundreds of engineers and tens of thousands of components. It bundles an onboarding… | ||
| Closing Remarks | André Wanlin, Bryan Landes, Balaji Sivasubramanian | 06m |
Survey returns about 13 responses and report concrete wins—catalog, self service templates and a growing plugin ecosystem—plus hard problems: upgrades and… | ||
| Lego Bricks for Developers: Turning Insights Into Golden Paths | Jeremy Adams, Luke Beamish | 28m |
Neo4j builds a library of Lego bricks — single-purpose, opinionated doc templates plus scaffolder recipes — and wires them into Backstage using the Backstage… | ||
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