BackstageCon and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 took place in Atlanta, featuring talks from organizations like Royal Bank of Canada, Ericsson, Toyota Connected, and Neo4j on scaling Backstage adoption. Key highlights included the release of the adoption-ready New Frontend System, MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration for AI-native capabilities, and the third Backstage ContribFest where contributors tackled issues together. The maintainers track celebrated project maturity with stable backend and frontend systems, showcased new features including declarative plugin integration, and outlined the roadmap for Backstage UI and enhanced AI tooling integration.
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Scenes from BackstageCon (and beyond) Our third Backstage ContribFest Maintainers talk: Stable foundations, MCP innovations See you in 🌷Amsterdam! Sort: