Product Engineering

Presenters Scott Rosenberg Maria Gabriella Brodi Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Level Up Your Self-Service Game: Crossplane + Backstage = Infrastructure Nirvana! 🚀 Ever feel like managing infrastructure is a bit like wrestling a hydra? You fix one thing, and two more pop up. Or maybe you’re a developer yearning for the power to spin up exactly what you need, when you need it, without waiting for a ticket to be processed? Well, get ready to have your mind blown, because the brilliant minds behind the latest tech trends are showing us how to make infrastructure programmable and consumable, all thanks to a dynamic duo: Crossplane and Backstage! ✨ ...

Presenters Rob Heckel Tyler Rothenberg Source BackstageCon NA 2025 Revolutionizing AI Integration: Toyota Connected’s Journey with Model Context Protocol 🚀 In the fast-paced world of tech, staying ahead means constantly innovating and finding smarter ways to work. Toyota Connected, a powerhouse behind the massive 12.5 million vehicles on their Drive Link platform and processing a staggering 29 billion transactions monthly, has embarked on an exciting journey to supercharge their generative AI adoption. Their secret weapon? The Model Context Protocol (MCP) and a brilliant strategy to make its integration seamless for their developers. ...

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. ...