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Backstage Users Unconference March 2022
In this unconference, attendees shared their experiences around testing and updating Backstage, driving TechDocs adoption, among other topics voted by the community.
Convincing InfoSec that integrations are safe
Jeff Madison, Chief Architect at NAVEXJeff Madison, Chief Architect at NAVEX, facilitated a session sharing his experiences around InfoSec and Backstage integrations.
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Demo of Ingestion Integration Testing
Taras Mankovski, CEO at Frontside SoftwareTaras and Charles from the Frontside team demonstrate their solution for testing ingestors in Backstage. An article explaining the approach is also available - https://frontside.com/blog/2022-03-24-testing-backstage-catalog-ingestors/
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Dissecting domain and systems modeling
Oliver Paraskos, Senior Software Engineer at FluxOliver Paraskos, Senior Engineer at Flux, lead a discussion to understand the role of domains and how to use them in Backstage. The attendees also shared their experience using systems, and outlined their relationship with domains.
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Driving TechDocs Adoption
David, Chief Roadie at RoadieDavid, from Roadie, facilitated a session to cover common pain points and strategies to help developers find value in the documentation within their Developer Portal.
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Homepage plugin and use cases
Justin Selleck, Principal DevOps Eng at SANSJustin Selleck, Principal DevOps Engineer at SANS, facillitated a session discussing use cases, challenges, and opportunities for the new homepage plugin.
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Keeping Backstage up to date
Richard Pearson, Engineering Manager at MoonpigRichard Pearson, Engineering Manager at Moonpig, facillitated a discussion on how to keep Backstage packages and data up to date.
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Using Backstage to catalog monolithic services
Cooper Berson, Platform Engineer at QuizletCooper Berson, Platform Engineer at Quizlet, introduced a use-case of monolithic services. The attendees discussed ideas on how to model the monolith without blowing up maintenance costs.
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Allowing more teams to contribute to Backstage
Thomas Ferrin, UX Researcher at Ad HocThomas Ferrin and the AdHoc team shared their use-cases and ideas to let other teams contribute plugins and own parts of Backstage.
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May's for versioning!
Backstage is enabling teams to discover new collaboration possibilities. But as they consume and develop more decoupled services, consistent versioning across the ecosystem becomes critical to orchestrating compatibility and autonomy.
Automatic Versioning in Polyglot Ecosystems
Jacob Bolda, Author of CovectorIn this talk, Jacob walked us through versioning models and caveats to consider when releasing packages and services when you use different languages to write them.
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Versioning Components in Backstage
Taras Mankovski, CEO at Frontside SoftwareHow can we reduce the complexity of versioned ecosystem components for developers? Elrick will introduce use cases and present a UX prototype to use as a starting point of the community discussion.
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March 2021 - it was our first show!
In this show, Iain introduced us to Roadie's advanced Backstage use-case—running it as a service! Then, Dominnik shared how they came up with the API docs plugin for Backstage at SDA SE and where the project is headed.
Roadie's multi-tenant Backstage architecture
Iain Billet, Software Engineer at RoadieIain talked about the architecture behind Roadie's SASS product — Backstage as a service. He covered how they manage changes, and how those changes make it to production. He covered AWS, Terraform, Flux and Helm.
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Getting started with the API docs plugin
Dominik Henneke, Software Engineer at SDA SEDominik showed us how to use the Backstage API docs plugin to discover APIs and get rendered documentation from OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and GraphQL schemas.
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