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Panel: Navigating Promotions: Insights From the Argo Community

Presenters Katie Lamkin-Fulsher Michael Crenshaw Taylor Thomas Dan Garfield Source ArgoCon NA 2025 Turbocharging Your Releases: From Cloud-Native Hurdles to AI-Powered Agility 🚀 The cloud-native world moves at lightning speed, demanding a constant flow of releases. But let’s be honest, achieving truly automated, safe, and efficient release promotions across all your environments can feel like navigating a minefield. Fear not! A recent panel of Argo community experts has shed some serious light on how to overcome these challenges, embrace emerging technologies like AI, and even measure success in ways that truly matter to your business. ...

Driving Adoption by Generating High Value Notifications in Backstage - Avantika Iyer & Andre Wanlin

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! 🌊 ...

Growing Pains: Taming the Post-Startup Stage With Backstage - Eli Encarnacion & Mike Spiegel, SpotOn

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. ...

Lightning Talk: From Friction To Flow: How Backstage Transformed Our Security... Christopher Diaz

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. ...