Backstage Community Session 09: Contributors — Oct 21, 2021
This month’s Community Session was the first time we hosted separate tracks for adopters and contributors. Highlights from this contributors session include:
• Contributor Spotlight (00:58): Our contributor of the month was Andre Wanlin of RAPID RTC! His Azure DevOps backend plugin lays down a foundation for more Azure integrations down the road. And his Homepage Timer puts a world clock on your Backstage homepage — what could be handier when you’re working with distributed teams scattered across the globe?
• Tech Insights RFC (05:09): The community discusses which kind of metrics reporting would be useful to incorporate into Backstage.
• Simulator followup (16:08): After demoing their simulation tooling at the adopters session, Frontside returns for feedback and discussion with the community about their idea for using simulated user data for local testing.
• Composable Homepage templates (30:44): Now it’s easier than ever to welcome your developers to Backstage. See the info you want to see, smooth out onboarding, and add your own branding with these new templates for customizing your Backstage homepage.
• What’s the deal with Backstage APIs? (39:42) Ask about the philosophy behind Backstage frontend APIs, get an on-the-spot explainer from a Backstage maintainer.
Watch the video to see everything you missed. And for more demos, updates, and discussion, don’t forget to check out the video of the adopters session, too.
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