Culture

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 Eli Encarnacion Mike Spiegel Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Taming Complexity: How SpotOn Revolutionized Engineering with Backstage 🚀 In the fast-paced world of tech, growth is often a double-edged sword. For SpotOn, a company powering mobile payments and management systems, rapid expansion through acquisitions brought incredible momentum but also a tangled web of systems and processes. Imagine inheriting not one, but three distinct startups, each with its own unique tech stack and deployment methods, all crammed into one organization! That was SpotOn’s reality. With a staggering 1,200 repositories and a constant barrage of “firefighting” from the operations team, clarity and focus felt like distant dreams. ...

Presenters Christopher Diaz Source BackstageCon NA 2025 How Backstage Became the Unsung Hero of Our AppSec Program 🚀 Hey everyone! Today, we’re diving deep into a fascinating three-year journey that transformed RVO Health’s application security program. If you’ve ever felt the pain of scattered security data, unclear ownership, and the sheer effort it takes to get critical vulnerabilities fixed, then this story is for you. Our speaker, Chris, a Principal Engineer at RVO Health, shared how Backstage, specifically its software catalog, became the backbone of their entire appsec strategy. ...

Presenters Balaji Sivasubramanian Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Revolutionizing Enterprise Development: Red Hat Developer Hub is Here to Transform Your Developer Journey! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Balaji Civas Subramanan from Red Hat is here to spill the beans on something truly game-changing for enterprise developers. If you’ve ever felt the sting of slow development cycles, endless context switching, and the sheer friction of building software at scale, then buckle up. Platform engineering is stepping in, and the developer portal is the new front door to a smoother, more productive experience. ...

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. ...