Forget Rebuilding, Install Plugins at Runtime - David Festal & Jon Koops, Red Hat

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. ...

April 13, 2026 · 4 min