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The Hitchhiker's Guide To Upgrading Backstage: Don't Panic! - Debabrata Panigrahi & Jenil Jain, Harness
Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 16:55 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1
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.
Speakers
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Debabrata Panigrahi

Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Harness
I'm a DevRel Engineer at Harness's IDP team. 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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Jenil Jain

Mr, Harness
I am Jenil Jain, a Staff Software Engineer at Harness, where I currently work on the Internal Developer Portal. I've been with Harness for almost 4.5 years, primarily focusing on frontend development throughout my career. Before joining Harness, I was part of Flipkart's Mobile Web... Read More →
Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 16:55 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1
  BackstageCon, Lessons learned from standing up + deploying + driving Backstage adoption + etc.

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