Cloud Native Computing Foundation BackstageCon NA 2022, 26 Oct 2022

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From YouTube: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Suzanne Daniels, Spotify & Martina Iglesias Fernandez, Roadie

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Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from April 17-21. Learn more at https://kubecon.io. The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.

Welcome + Opening Remarks - Suzanne Daniels, Spotify & Martina Iglesias Fernandez, Roadie

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Good morning am I, audible, yeah, okay, cool.

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So welcome folks to the very first ever deck stagecon.

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So for those who don't know me, I'm Susana I work at Spotify leading developer relations for backstage.

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And I'm Martina city of Brody.

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Yeah, we will will be your hosts today, um so we will introduce the speakers and well we wish you a warm welcome and there's another one another one wanting to wish you a warm welcome. It's Bowie, the backstage Beaver, saying hi to you all.

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Isn't that cute right, so I'm so happy to see you all here today. It is a very special moment. um This is not only talking about backstage as a platform to create developer portals. We share a common goal. We share a common love.

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We want to get the red World rid of developers who are unhappy not by removing the developers but by making them happy actually and there's many reasons to do so. But first let me thank the diamond sponsors, that's Roadie, Spotify and VMware tansu and, of course, our Platinum sponsors. Thank you so much for making this all possible and also the cncf for organizing this event. It's a lot of work putting this together and it costs a lot of money. So thank you all for making this possible.

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So, yes, we share this common love and that is making developers happy more productive to make it a better world to improve the philosophy at our companies the pace at what we can innovate, that's what we do and the tool bringing us all together. That is backstage it's the platform making that all possible and you make the platform possible by contributing to it by sharing knowledge together with the community, making it the best developer experience out there.

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So thank you for that, and thank you for being here so reasons why we care about backstage and developer experience.

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There's many, and one of the reasons is that we grow our developer Workforce over the coming years to a stunning 45 million by 2030, but that's not only about growth.

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The economic situation is not that good, and then you also need to be able to scale Down When, there's less better times.

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And you need to be able to do that and you need to be able to share knowledge we're here at Cloud native events just look around when you have the time in the following days and see how many projects are there? How much tooling is needed to build modern day software to build modern day platforms, and you need to learn all that technology. You need to adopt all that technology.

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And yet there's not enough time to actually write code to actually work on your applications to work on your infrastructure. A lot of time is wasted, searching for information trying to collaborate.

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And this platform it can help you achieve those goals, make it better make it a better experience, make it more efficient, making sure that there's more time to learn to adopt new technologies.

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So, a little over two and a half years ago, when some people decided to open source backstage I'm. Looking for you, Dave.

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Nobody would have thought that we would reach this moment where we would sit in Detroit of all places in a large room with so many people who really really like this project, who built business over businesses around it, who created projects and products using backstage and well, even if we go back a little bit further when the actual development started in 2014.

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Well, really, nobody could have mentioned this and it's been a big success. The community grew and grew, but also we have more than 400 adopting companies at this moment. That's a lot.

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And there were some highlights this year we celebrated our second birthday, open source backstage yeah well and if there's one thing to applaud on it's reaching incubator status that that's really a big one, um because it shows it shows the world that they can trust backstage. They can invest in this project. It's safe to adopt this because reaching incubating phase, it's not nothing.

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It's a huge achievement and we will continue investing together with you all are reaching that graduation States and we released 1.0, which was also another milestone, and we are now in a regular Cadence. Releasing new versions and also the Fret model was introduced, and we had our first security audit, which we well passed. So that's also good news and very important for a lot of regulated environments and adapters and well.

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This fellow was introduced- and this is backstage backstage Beaver Bowie, which is our uh what's, is our mascot, which is a really huge achievement as well, because it is difficult choosing an animal starting with b. You don't you don't want to know the discussions we had, but we're happy and welcoming Bowie as well to our warm community of uh in in backstage and, yes, you can also join the community. If you're not aware, there's a landing page on our website, backstage.io Community there, you can find out out all the community initiatives.

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If you have an initiative and it's not listed, please do a pull request um so that we can list that as well. There's newsletters you can subscribe to and also you can find community events there. So if you haven't already do check it out and now, let's go into some Logistics Martina. Yes,.

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Thank you, okay. So a few things happening today um this week we have a project meeting happening tomorrow at 8, 8 A.M and there is limited space. So if you want to sign up, you need to find Ben I. Think there. That's the fellow way finger so make sure you can find him to register. For that meeting. It's going to be very interesting.

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We have sponsor tables right outside of the room. Please check them out during the breaks you can talk to maintainers or, like all the sponsors, and so on. It's going to be very interesting for anyone needing transcription or subtitles. There is a QR code, I think in one of the signs by the right entrance.

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And there's also a community session happening on Wednesday. This will be live streamed, and so we won't get a room for that to do it in person, but you can join it anyway. We will have a panel discussion with some special guests, I wanna, see and we'll also discuss a little bit about what happened today and today what's happening. We have a few very interesting keynote talks. We will have a session from the maintainers as well, then we will have a few lightning talks and then the rest of the sessions, all of them super interesting.

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Please stay until the end. It's gonna be amazing and have fun enjoy the the event. Take pictures share them in social media. We have backstage cone as the hashtag for Twitter. Please use it share everything that happens today there and thank you again to all of our sponsors today.