Product Engineering

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. ...

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. ...

Presenters David Pech Source WasmCon NA 2025 From Kubernetes Headaches to WebAssembly Wonders: The Quest for Seamless Autoscaling 🚀 Ever felt the sting of a slow-scaling application when demand spikes? You’re not alone! David, a seasoned infrastructure lead at Reich, recently took us on a fascinating journey, dissecting the often-frustrating world of autoscaling. His mission? To find that sweet spot of instantaneous, Lambda-like scaling, but without the hefty price tag. Buckle up, because we’re diving deep into the challenges of Kubernetes and the tantalizing promises of WebAssembly! ...

Presenters Colin Murphy Mendy Berger Source WasmCon NA 2025 Unmasking the Truth: How the Content Authenticity Initiative is Fighting AI Deception 🛡️ In today’s digital landscape, where AI can conjure breathtaking images and videos in a blink, distinguishing reality from fabrication has become a monumental challenge. We’re living in an era where the line between genuine and AI-generated content is increasingly blurred, and the problem is only amplified when metadata – the breadcrumbs of information that tell us about an asset’s origin – gets stripped away during sharing. But fear not, intrepid digital explorers! The Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) is here to shine a light on the truth, armed with innovative technology and a commitment to integrity. 💡 ...