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From YouTube: Keynote: Providing a Curated Experience for Developers with Backstage - Valentina Alaria
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Keynote: Providing a Curated Experience for Developers with Backstage - Valentina Alaria, Sr. Director, VMware Tanzu
Conversations with our customers reveal that a unified interface for accessing a curated catalog of developer tools, services, templates and APIs is critical for developer productivity and happiness. Developers want to start writing code as quickly as possible, platform engineers want to ensure the software produced meets enterprise requirements and quality standards so they can support scalability.
As these conversations were happening we began to notice the innovations coming from a dynamically evolving community around Backstage. We quickly recognized it as the right technology to enable better outcomes for our customers in the areas of developer experience, release velocity, and software quality. With Backstage, platform engineers can provide a curated experience that is consistent and flexible enough to meet different developer teams’ requirements.
In this talk Valentina Alaria, Sr. Director of Product Management for VMware Tanzu, will share how VMware incorporates Backstage into our flagship platforms, why the curated experience is a core tenant of Tanzu, and how it’s enabling developer velocity and happiness.
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A
They
were
building
that
are
really
supporting
application
teams
on
their
journey
of
starting
to
use
cloud
native,
Technologies,
kubernetes,
underneath,
but
really
everything
that
it's
part
of
that
landscape
and
I
do
care
a
whole
lot
about
the
experience
of
this
team,
so
I
care
a
whole
lot
about
the
developer
experience,
but
I
also
care
a
whole
lot
about
their
counterparts.
They've
said
cops
as
they
partner
with
developers
to
enable
them
on
their
journey.
A
So,
first
and
foremost,
you
heard
a
whole
lot
already
this
morning
about
developer
experience
and
I
just
want
to
level
set.
Why
do
we
care
so
much
about
developer
experience?
Fundamentally,
the
tldr
there
is
that
businesses
depend
on
developer
experience.
Businesses
depend
on
developer
productivity,
there's
a
great
framework
with
this
developer
velocity
index,
but
pick
your
favorite
poison
in
terms
of
how
you
want
to
measure
developer
productivity
organizations
that
have
higher
developer
productivity
are
fundamentally
more
successful.
They're
able
to
react
to
changing
business
needs
faster.
A
They
make
their
Workforce
more
productive
and
they're,
just
able
to
support
bigger
and
greater
innovation,
and
so
really
everything
that
we're
doing
at
VMware
with
its
products,
and
many
of
you
in
this
community
is
to
make
sure
we
boost
up
this.
This
developer
productivity
and
we
enable
these
organizations
to
roll
out
applications
faster.
Now.
A
They
have
kkpis
or
okrs
or,
however,
they
want
to
measure
their
objectives
and
performances,
and
it's
really
all
about
establishing
a
strategy
around
developer
productivity,
and
you
know
every
organization
out
there
it's
in
the
business
of
writing
software,
so
this
is
not
about
Niche
Enterprises.
It's
really
about
everyone
globally,
caring
deeply
about
all
of
this.
A
Now,
where
are
we?
How
are
we
rating
ourselves
in
terms
of
developer
productivity?
We're
not
quite
there
globally?
If
you
look
at
Enterprises,
you
know
a
lot
of
developers
out
there
are
experiencing
friction
and
David
was
talking
a
little
bit
about
this
earlier
right.
A
lot
of
this
comes
from
just
the
richness
of
the
ecosystem.
That
cncf
is
which
sadly
translates
into
just
complexity.
A
If
any
of
you
has
not
read
the
blogs
that
a
Spotify
team
published
around
the
golden
pads
go,
add
them
to
your
reading
list,
they're,
fantastic
and
very
much
something
that
we
believe
is
core
to
how
we're
going
to
be
solving
this
problem.
Moving
forward,
we've
been
talking
about
this
as
curated
path
to
Productions,
but
very
much.
The
concept
is
the
same
there.
The
idea
is
that
you
want
to
extract
signal
from
the
noise.
We
want
to
extract
order
from
chaos
of
organizations
having
a
gazillion
choices.
A
You
know,
I
was
spending
time
with
the
large
Financial
customers
a
few
weeks
back,
and
they
were
telling
me
that
they
have
tens
of
thousands
of
custom
code
that
supports
each
individual
path
of
production,
that
every
single
line
of
business
organizations
needs
to
have,
and
this
is
just
unsustainable
and
so
the
the
whole
notion
here
of
creating
this
created.
Let's
yet
customizable
pathway
Productions
enables
you
to
then
offer
order
and
best
practices
and
pre-defined
patterns
to
your
developers,
which
fundamentally
then
boost
their
productivity.
A
This
has
to
be
that
augmented
with
additional
capabilities
and
one
of
the
key
themes,
if
you
think
about
Enterprises,
looking
at
developer
productivity
and
complementing
in
it,
it's
all
about
security
and
best
practices
right,
so
it's
all
about
being
able
to
enforce
Security
in
a
way
that
it's
end
to
end
and
it's
embedded.
We
all
talk
about
shifting
left
shifting
left
should
should
not
ever
mean
that
this
becomes
a
burden
for
the
developer.
A
It
means
that
the
organization
is
able
to
enforce
security
best
practices
in
a
way
that
it's
completely
transparent
to
the
developer.
The
developer
should
just
not
be
thinking
about
it.
There's
automatic
scanning
ability
to
detect
vulnerabilities
react
to
that,
and
everything
that
it
just
just
happens
under
the
hoods
for
for
the
developer.
A
So
as
as
we
set
up
on
our
journey
as
VMware
to
build
a
product
that
solved
a
lot
of
these
challenges,
we
find
ourselves
at
a
forking
Road.
This
was
a
couple
of
years
back.
It
was
the
very
early
days
of
project
backstage
and,
as
we
started,
building
our
platform
offering,
which
we
call
tons
of
application
platform.
A
This
is
really
not
very
dissimilar
from
what
a
lot
of
the
customers
that
I
work
with
on
a
daily
basis.
I've
done,
they
started
building
things,
there's
a
wide
collection
of
portals
out
there,
but
as
we
went
down
that
path
at
some
point
as
we
kept
revisiting
and
evaluating
backstage,
we
decided
it
was
way
better
for
us
and
for
the
customers
that
we
serve
to
actually
join
this
community
actively
and
start
taking
advantage
of
of
really
backstage
and
then
contribute
back
and
enrich
it.
A
And
so
we
sort
of
Switched
path
over
and
started
building
on
top
of
project
backstage
and
has
been
just
a
really
fantastic
experience
and
we've
been
able
to
really
bring
this
better
together
to
to
our
customers.
We've
been,
of
course,
really
packaging
and
hardening.
What
backstage
is
for
Enterprise
customers,
so
they
have
a
lot
of
unique
needs,
as
you
can
imagine
from
scaling
to
just
hardening
security,
they
want
to
have
really
this
curation,
so
we
we
help
repackage
a
bunch
of
plugins
that
make
a
whole
lot
of
sense
for
them.
A
A
They
were
we've
recently
been
building
or
on
top
of
Backstage,
but
the
reason
why
I
wanted
to
share
this
is
because
our
journey
is
very
much
reflective
of
the
customer's
Journey
that
we're
working
with
what
is
extremely
exciting
about
backstage
is
the
possibility
that
this
puts
in
front
of
us
as
we
look
at
bringing
together
existing
portals.
As
we
look
at
bringing
together
existing
Technologies
and
rebuilding
a
hub
for
organizations
for
collaboration,
there's
a
there's,
a
incredible
opportunity
to
really
create
this
one
common
view.
A
You
know
there's
so
much
that
already
exists
within
an
Enterprise,
especially
as
the
larger
it
is
the
more
through
this
is.
But
what
is
very
hard
is
finding
whatever
it's
already
there,
whether
it's
API,
whether
it's
projects,
whether
it's
documents,
whether
it's
anything
else,
you
may
be
adding
on
top
of
that
and
so
creating
this
one
landing
spot
brings
a
whole
lot
of
value
to
these
large
organizations.
A
How
much
each
organization
can
then
customize
and
add
what
it's
uniquely
important
for
them
to
the
instance
that
you
bring
to
them,
and
so
just
want
to.
Thank
you
all
for
the
hard
work
that
you're
all
doing.
It's
been
exciting
to
be
part
of
this
journey
and
I
just
love
to
see
how
much
a
user
is
just
just
adore
this
project
and
how
excited
they
are
to
be
able
to
start
using
it
within
their
organizations.
Looking
forward
to
chat
with
you
all
in
the
hallway
track
and
enjoy
your
week.