The State of Backstage in 2025
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 16:15· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16·
summary
Backstage reports ~3,400 adopters, ~230 plugins, and nearly 30,000 stars while shipping a stable backend 1.0 and pushing the new frontend toward a stable release. Recent features include scaffolder checkpoints and repo-URL autocomplete, a growing community plugins monorepo (97 workspaces), embedded OpenAPI docs, a new design system Canon (alpha, built on base UI), entity-page improvements like tab groups and sticky cards, middleware extension factories, migration utilities, webhook-driven catalog updates, and documented scale patterns for half‑million‑entity catalogs.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:41Project area updates
- 4:36Design and documentation
- 7:06Framework updates
- 16:13Catalog model
- 17:31Backstage at Spotify scale
- 21:18Scaling the software catalog
- 26:52Roadmap and Q&A
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