Backstage Community Session — July 17, 2024

Get up to speed on the v1.29 release, which continues to pave the way for a stable 1.0 release of the New Backend System, plus the Microsoft Azure Incubation team drops by to show off their Radius plugin in this July 2024 edition of the Backstage Community Session. 00:45 v1.29 release highlights include more breaking changes and deprecations, as well as new health check endpoints, a Catalog Logs module, support for GitHub repository events, Catalog internationalization (i18n) support, and more. 02:49 Special interest group (SIG) updates: SIG Catalog is now SIG Framework. github.com/backstage/community/tree/main/sigs/sig-… 04:06 Members of the Microsoft Azure Incubation team introduce us to Radius — an open source cloud native application platform that works on any cloud. Radius is a CNCF Sandbox project. 11:30 The Radius team discusses why they built their application graph dashboard as a Backstage plugin and share some of their initial user feedback and research (13:12). 15:05 Live demo of Radius: Starting with deploying an app to showing the application graph dashboard running as a Backstage plugin (18:16) that visualizes the relationship between an app and its resources. 27:15 The architecture and design of the dashboard. 29:46 What it was like developing a plugin for Backstage — including the good, the bad, and the “not sure”, future work (34:10), and how to get involved with Radius (37:05). 38:48 The Backstage maintainers and the Radius team discuss possible future use cases for Radius, including how it might (and might not) integrate with the Backstage Software Catalog. The Backstage Community Session is the monthly meetup where we all come together to listen to the latest maintainer updates, learn from each other about adopting, share exciting new demos or discuss any relevant topic like developer effectiveness, developer experience, developer portals, etc. Join the Backstage community! 🗓 See the agenda for this session: github.com/backstage/community/issues/131 ✉️ Subscribe to the newsletter for product updates, community news, and more: spoti.fi/backstagenewsletter 🧑🏼‍💻 For features, demos, and docs: backstage.io/ 🗣️ Have questions? Reach out on Discord: discord.gg/MUpMjP2

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