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Presenters Scott Rosenberg Maria Gabriella Brodi Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Level Up Your Self-Service Game: Crossplane + Backstage = Infrastructure Nirvana! 🚀 Ever feel like managing infrastructure is a bit like wrestling a hydra? You fix one thing, and two more pop up. Or maybe you’re a developer yearning for the power to spin up exactly what you need, when you need it, without waiting for a ticket to be processed? Well, get ready to have your mind blown, because the brilliant minds behind the latest tech trends are showing us how to make infrastructure programmable and consumable, all thanks to a dynamic duo: Crossplane and Backstage! ✨ ...

Presenters Rob Heckel Tyler Rothenberg Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Revolutionizing AI Integration: Toyota Connected’s Journey with Model Context Protocol 🚀 In the fast-paced world of tech, staying ahead means constantly innovating and finding smarter ways to work. Toyota Connected, a powerhouse behind the massive 12.5 million vehicles on their Drive Link platform and processing a staggering 29 billion transactions monthly, has embarked on an exciting journey to supercharge their generative AI adoption. Their secret weapon? The Model Context Protocol (MCP) and a brilliant strategy to make its integration seamless for their developers. ...

Presenters Avantika Iyer Andre Wanlin Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Supercharge Your Workflow: Unlocking the Power of Backstage Notifications 🚀 Ever feel like you’re drowning in a sea of alerts, or worse, missing crucial updates that keep your projects humming? At Spotify, Avanktika and Andre have been hard at work building a solution that not only streamlines communication but also supercharges your workflow within Backstage: Notifications. And guess what? This isn’t just another internal tool; it’s a community-contributed core functionality that’s already making waves! 🌊 ...

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. ...

Presenters Damien O'Toole Kieran Egan Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Ericsson’s DevX Revolution: How Backstage Transformed Developer Productivity 🚀 Ever feel like your developers are spending more time hunting for information than actually building awesome stuff? You’re not alone! Ericsson’s developer experience team tackled this exact challenge head-on, embarking on a journey that transformed their internal landscape and resulted in a staggering over 4,000 weekly visits to their Backstage portal by approximately 1260 engineers. This isn’t just about a shiny new tool; it’s a masterclass in cultivating a thriving developer ecosystem. ...