Scaling AI Development With Software Templates in Backstage: Challenge... Maysun Faisal & Elson Yuen

Presenters Maysun Faisal Elson Yuen Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Supercharge Your AI Development: How Backstage Templates Are Revolutionizing Productivity 🚀 The world of Artificial Intelligence is moving at lightning speed. With the explosion of Large Language Models (LLMs) and sophisticated model servers, keeping up can feel like chasing a runaway train. For development teams, this means constantly navigating new releases, ensuring compatibility, and upholding stringent security standards. It’s a complex dance that can easily pull focus away from the core mission: building amazing AI applications. ...

November 24, 2025 · 6 min

Panel: The Future of DevPortals - Fabrizio S, Gerardo F, Graziano C, Cheryl F & Abhinav D

Presenters Fabrizio Sgura Gerardo Lopez Falcon Graziano Casto Cheryl Fillekes Abhinav Dubey Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Unlocking Developer Superpowers: The Rise of Internal Developer Portals 🚀 Ever felt like navigating the labyrinth of modern software development is like trying to find a needle in a haystack? You’re not alone! The conference session we’re diving into today sheds a brilliant light on a transformative solution: Internal Developer Portals (IDPs). These aren’t just fancy dashboards; they’re the key to supercharging developer experience and boosting operational efficiency across the board. 🌐 ...

November 24, 2025 · 7 min

Lightning Talk: CEL: Hidden Feature of Kyverno Playground - Hoon Jo, Megazone

Presenters Hoon Jo Source KyvernoCon NA 2025 Unlock Kubernetes Validation Superpowers with Kyverno Playground! 🚀 Ever found yourself wrestling with Kubernetes validation rules, wishing for a simpler, more interactive way to test them out? Well, get ready to cheer, because the future of Kubernetes policy management just got a whole lot more exciting! Today, we’re diving deep into the incredible world of the Kyverno Playground and how it’s revolutionizing the way we approach validation and mutation policies. ...

November 24, 2025 · 4 min

Lightning Talk: What If the Runtime Was Portable Too? Self-Hosted Runtime Capabilitie... Yuki Nakata

Presenters Yuki Nakata Source WasmCon NA 2025 Unlocking WebAssembly’s True Potential: A Self-Hosted Runtime Revolution 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt the incredible promise of WebAssembly (Wasm) being held back by… well, Wasm itself? It’s a common frustration. Wasm is designed for portability, boasting bytecode that’s independent of language and hardware. This “write once, run anywhere” mantra is powerful, yet the reality is a landscape of over 100 diverse Wasm runtimes. Each with its own execution models (interpreters, JIT, AOT), target platforms, and crucially, unique capabilities. This diversity, while enabling specialized powerhouses like Wasmtime for AI, actually limits Wasm’s true portability. ...

November 24, 2025 · 5 min

Shift Left in Action: Automating CIS Compliance With Kyverno and CNCF Power Too... Yugandhar Suthari

Presenters Yugandhar Suthari Source KyvernoCon NA 2025 Shifting Left to Secure Your Kubernetes Kingdom: A Kano Story 🏰🛡️ Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt like security in Kubernetes is a constant game of whack-a-mole? You patch one vulnerability, and two more pop up. It’s a feeling many of us have experienced, and it’s precisely why the concept of “shifting left” has become so crucial in our development workflows. This presentation dives deep into how we can proactively secure our Kubernetes clusters, before any sneaky vulnerabilities can make their way into production. ...

November 24, 2025 · 5 min