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Presenters David Festal Jon Koops Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 🚀 Stop Rebuilding Your Backstage App: The Power of Dynamic Runtime Plugins In the world of internal developer portals, Backstage stands as the industry titan. However, anyone who has managed a large-scale instance knows the “banana and the rainforest” problem: you want a simple plugin, but you end up pulling in a massive web of transitive dependencies that bloat your build and slow your CI/CD pipeline to a crawl. ...

Presenters Debabrata Panigrahi Parseable Inc. Jenil Jain Harness Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 Beyond Plugins: Building a Self-Healing, Dynamic Service Catalog 🚀 In the world of internal developer portals, Backstage is often hailed as the “one place to find every service, API, and piece of infrastructure.” For many teams, the initial launch is a triumph. Developers register services, YAML files are written, and leadership is impressed. But then comes Month Six. ...

Presenters Sebastian Poxhofer N26 Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 Unlocking the Developer Catalog: N26’s Journey to Empower Engineers 🚀 Ever felt the frustration of a powerful internal developer platform that’s just a little too internal? You know, the one with all the data, but accessing it feels like a scavenger hunt? At N26, a leading mobile bank, they faced this exact challenge with their Backstage catalog. Sebastian Poxhofer, a Tech Lead at N26, shared their brilliant journey to transform their catalog from a treasure trove into an accessible, actionable powerhouse for their engineering teams. Get ready to dive into how they unlocked their catalog, empowering engineers with self-service and automation! ...

Presenters Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia Diya Jolly Source Product School podcast 🚀 The Future of SaaS: From Clicking Buttons to Conversational Insights In the rapidly evolving world of software, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how humans interact with technology. According to Diya Jolly, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Xero, the era of clicking buttons all over a dashboard is ending. Instead, SaaS is transforming into a space where users primarily review insights and engage in natural conversations with their data. ...

Presenters Shweta Vohra Joseph Stein Source InfoQ podcast 🚀 Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Building the Next-Gen AI Operating Model If your team has AI running in a proof of concept but struggles to deploy it reliably in production, you are navigating the most critical gap in modern engineering. In this episode of the Next Generation Playbook for AI, Shweta Vohra sits down with industry veteran Joseph Stein to decode how we move from simple chatbots to autonomous agentic systems without descending into architectural chaos. ...