Backstage Weekly 96 - Improved performance, Viktor Farcic reviewing Backstage and new plugins
By Sam Nixon • September 16th, 2024Hi y’all! Backstage Weekly has been revived! It’s been a busy year for us (and the Backstage community) so the time is ripe for a new Backstage Weekly.
This week:
- New article: Improving Backstage Performance
- Project updates: the new Backend is now default,
- New video: Viktor Farcic reviews Backstage (and Roadie)
- New plugins: GitHub Co-pilot Adoption Metrics, LaunchDarkly and Shortcut
Improving Backstage Performance
As Backstage instances become more successful, they tend to grow. Teams want to register all their AWS accounts or pull in 10,000s of users and groups. When that happens, performance can take a hit. You find yourself needing a way to optimise performance so that user experience doesn’t suffer.
In the latest Roadie article, we share a few ideas on how to improve performance. It’s fresh off the press, check it out!
Want to start building on top of Backstage? Get a Roadie Backstage instance so you can start shipping features into your IDP without having to manage an instance. Get a demo now!
The New Backend System now default
As of Backstage 1.26, after months of non-stop dedication from maintainers and the community, the New Backstage System is now the default backend system. A lot of plugins are now adopting the new system, so we should see a rapid shift to the new setup.
Find more details about this and later releases in the release notes.
KubeCon & BackstageCon North America 2024
The line-up is out for KubeCon & BackstageCon North America in Salt Lake City. Roadie won’t be presenting at this years North American edition, but the line-up is strong and we’ll be there as Sponsors. This year’s edition feels like a powerful statement about the progress Backstage is making - AWS, Microsoft, Booking.com, Harness and LinearB are all giving talks.
The full line-up is here. Check it out, and we’ll hopefully see you there!
Video: Backstage review dive with Viktor Farcic
A new DevOps Toolkit video from Viktor Farcic landed this week. He reviewed Backstage through the lens of Roadie and gave folks a deeper look into how you could quickly configure a Backstage instance to grab some data from a kubernetes cluster. We’re big fans of Viktor and loved his approach here.
New plugins: GitHub Copilot Adoption Metrics, LaunchDarkly and Shortcut
A raft of new plugins have been launched for Backstage, not least new community plugins for GitHub Copilot adoption metrics, and new Roadie plugins for LaunchDarkly and Shortcut (among others). It’s a boom time for plugins!