Debabrata Panigrahi
Founding Team @Parseable
Bengaluru, India
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I'm a founding team member at Parseable a fast observability platform on S3. I have been contributing to open source for the last four years, previously part of the Kubernetes Release team, and contributed to sig-contribex.
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Value Driven Platform Engineering Using Backstage
This talk introduces Value-Based Platform Engineering, a paradigm that emphasizes delivering tangible business value through technical excellence. As a DevRel Engineer for an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Backstage, I approach our developers as 'Customer Zero', focusing on driving platform adoption by showcasing its value in reducing routine tasks.
The heart of our strategy in the IDP is twofold: automation and visibility. By enhancing visibility, we ensure all necessary software components are easily accessible to developers, streamlining their workflow and decision-making. Concurrently, the automation aspect empowers our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team with self-service workflows allowing them to focus on activities that enhance system reliability and performance.
In this talk, I will share how these strategies of automation and visibility have revolutionized our IDP, fostering a more productive and value-driven environment for developers and SREs.
Value Driven Platform Engineering Using Backstage
This talk introduces Value-Based Platform Engineering, a paradigm that emphasizes delivering tangible business value through technical excellence. As a DevRel Engineer for an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Backstage, I approach our developers as 'Customer Zero', focusing on driving platform adoption by showcasing its value in reducing routine tasks.
The heart of our strategy in the IDP is twofold: automation and visibility. By enhancing visibility, we ensure all necessary software components are easily accessible to developers, streamlining their workflow and decision-making. Concurrently, the automation aspect empowers our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team with self-service workflows allowing them to focus on activities that enhance system reliability and performance.
In this talk, I will share how these strategies of automation and visibility have revolutionized our IDP, fostering a more productive and value-driven environment for developers and SREs.
The mumbo-jumbo of CI/CD
We keep hearing about Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, while it seems that every new week new terms appear to describe CI/CD and largely the devops landscape, which eventually forms a word salad making it quite difficult to sort out. In this talk we will look into few of these terms and standardized terminologies by CD Foundation and the different usage of these terminologies by different products in this landscape.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Upgrading Backstage: Don't Panic!
Upgrading Backstage is a crucial part of maintaining a modern developer portal, but it can be daunting. As a team actively maintaining Backstage in our organization, we’ve tackled challenges like managing breaking changes, plugin compatibility, and anticipating new features.
This session shares a practical guide to upgrading, focusing on tools like backstage-cli for version checks, nightly builds to test individual packages without a full upgrade, and leveraging Backstage Enhancement Proposals (BEPs) to stay ahead of changes. We’ll cover real-world strategies for incremental upgrades, automation, and minimizing disruptions, alongside lessons learned from navigating unexpected pitfalls.
By the end of the session, you’ll have a clear roadmap to streamline your upgrades, reduce risk, and stay ahead of breaking changes—all while keeping your catalog and team sanity intact.
Rising Demand for Developer Portals: Understanding Customer Needs and Requirements
In the ever evolving software ecosystem as a company building developer tools, we're observing a significant increase in requests for Developer Portals, especially for CI/CD, cloud cost, and feature management. We'll discuss the reason for this growing demand and explore the specific requirements companies are looking for, also focus on how developer portals are becoming vital for developers to efficiently access a suite of tools and functionalities,also known as Internal Developer Platform. Key focus areas will include the need for seamless integration across various development tools, the importance of a user-friendly interface for streamlined workflows, and the demand for robust security features. Additionally, we'll look into how these portals can be customized to fit different organizational needs, enhancing both developer experience and productivity. By examining real-world case studies, we'll identify best practices and common challenges faced in implementing developer portals.
Improving Developer Experience with Backstage
Backstage, an open platform for building developer portals, is a CNCF incubated project, started by Spotify. In this talk I will give a demo of how backstage could be used as a single developer portal for accessing all resources within a team in an organisation to improve developer experience and onboarding. There will be emphasis on the plugin based architecture of backstage that makes it endlessly extensible and customisable. Internally at Harness we have been using Backstage for quite some time now to improve the adaptability and developer experience of our CD platform, will share my learning we had while building Harness Pipeline plugins for backstage and how as an organisations you could build and manage your plugins that could be used internally as well as your customers already having a backstage setup.
New paradigm of resiliency tesing: Cloud Native Chaos Engineering
This session will cover the overview of Cloud native chaos engineering with an overall demo of how to use Chaos Mesh for resiliency testing of deployments in Kubernetes. Also it will cover the use of observability tools like Chaosd/linkerd dashboard in analyzing the system faults.
Evangelising Value Driven Platform Engineering
This talk introduces Value-Based Platform Engineering, a paradigm that emphasizes delivering tangible business value through technical excellence. As a DevRel Engineer for an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Backstage, I approach our developers as 'Customer Zero', focusing on driving platform adoption by showcasing its value in reducing routine tasks.
The heart of our strategy in the IDP is twofold: automation and visibility. By enhancing visibility, we ensure all necessary software components are easily accessible to developers, streamlining their workflow and decision-making. Concurrently, the automation aspect empowers our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team with self-service workflows allowing them to focus on activities that enhance system reliability and performance.
In this talk, I will share how these strategies of automation and visibility have revolutionized our IDP, fostering a more productive and value-driven environment for developers and SREs.
Architecting Multi-Tenant Backstage Instances in a Shared Kubernetes Cluster
This talk will focus on addressing the challenge of Backstage's non-multi-tenant design, we propose a unique architecture for deploying separate Backstage instances per organisation in a shared Kubernetes cluster. Each instance will be isolated within customer-specific namespaces, ensuring data integrity and security. Our approach involves setting up individual IDP instances for each oraginisation, reinforcing authentication and authorization security.
We will also discuss on how this architecture not only addresses the immediate challenges of deploying a non-multi-tenant application like Backstage in a multi-tenant environment but also sets the stage for a secure, scalable, and efficient future, benefiting the entire ecosystem.
The proposed architecture paves way for providing backstage as a managed SaaS solution, adding business value and promoting the project among developers thereby increasing upstream collaboration and contribution.
Architecting Multi-Tenant Backstage Instances in a Shared Kubernetes Cluster
This talk will focus on addressing the challenge of Backstage's non-multi-tenant design, we propose a unique architecture for deploying separate Backstage instances per organisation in a shared Kubernetes cluster. Each instance will be isolated within customer-specific namespaces, ensuring data integrity and security. Our approach involves setting up individual IDP instances for each oraginisation, reinforcing authentication and authorization security.
We will also discuss on how this architecture not only addresses the immediate challenges of deploying a non-multi-tenant application like Backstage in a multi-tenant environment but also sets the stage for a secure, scalable, and efficient future, benefiting the entire ecosystem.
The proposed architecture paves way for providing backstage as a managed SaaS solution, adding business value and promoting the project among developers thereby increasing upstream collaboration and contribution.
Debabrata Panigrahi
Founding Team @Parseable
Bengaluru, India
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