System Architecture and Design

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 Justin Reock Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Navigating the AI Wave: A Platform Engineering Survival Guide 🌊👨‍💻 The AI revolution is here, and it’s not just a fleeting trend – it’s a fundamental shift reshaping how we build and deliver software. For platform engineering teams, this means a new era of challenges and opportunities. While the hype is undeniable, the real impact of AI on our workflows demands a strategic, data-driven approach. Let’s dive into how platform teams can not only survive but thrive in this AI-powered future. ...

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. ...