Backstage Community Session 14: Contributors — Mar 23, 2022
In this Community Session, we review the recent milestones our Backstage community hit, chat with Djamaile Rahamat, our contributor spotlight, and watch three demos ranging from new plugins to test environments.
• Backstage’s Birthday 🥳🎂!! (1:10): To celebrate Backstage turning 2️⃣, Spotify’s Backstage DevRel team put together a birthday video featuring maintainers and contributors to discuss all things Backstage. Check out the video ( • Backstage's 2nd Birthday ) and read more about Backstage’s birthday in this blog: https://backstage.io/blog/2022/03/16/...
• But wait – there’s more! 📟(6:10): As Himanshu points out, Backstage is blessed 🙏by our community, and our community’s involvement with Backstage is part of the reason we were able to reach a few other milestones this month like Incubation and 1.0. Read more on Backstage incubation in the CNCF’s blog: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/03/15/b... and read more on Backstage's 1.0 Release https://backstage.io/blog/2022/03/17/...
• Contributor Spotlight 🤓🔦(7:46): Simply put, our contributors deserve A LOT of praise and recognition 👏, and this month hats off to Djamaile Rahamat 🙇🏻! Spotify’s Himanshu chats with him about how he started working on developer experience, got involved with the open source community, and discovered Backstage. Djamaile recommends using Discord as a great place to learn – check him out ,too, on Discord, user name: Red 🟥. Reminder! You can nominate anyone for contributor’s spotlight (even yourself) here: https://backstage.io/nominate
• DEMOS ✖️ 3️⃣! 👨🏫🧑🎓(14:37): Teachers became the students and students became the teachers in this community session as we followed along three demos this month. Phillip Kuang kicked us off this month with a new way to preview Scaffolder Templates. With this latest development, you don’t have to commit changes before previewing updates. Next, Julio Zynger from SoundCloud schooled us (22:34) as he talked about a NEW! ❗plugin called Periskop and important takeaways for creating a plugin for Backstage. This new plugin is all about monitoring errors. Learn more about it here: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/even.... To wrap up the session, Charles Lowell (34:58) walked us through how Frontside created an Ingestion Integration Test Suite for Backstage. Learn about how each test he runs has its own Backstage server 🤯.
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