How the Radius Dashboard Leverages Backstage to Build Visualizations of Cloud-Native Applications

Learn how Microsoft's team leveraged Backstage to accelerate the development of the Radius Dashboard in this 13-minute lightning talk from KubeCon. Explore the decision-making process behind choosing Backstage as the framework for building user interface visualizations of cloud-native applications, with particular focus on its minimal development requirements, customization capabilities, and extensibility ecosystem. Discover how the Software Catalog and Software Templates core plugins aligned perfectly with Radius's application-centric development model, and examine the implementation of application graph visualizations that enable deeper integration within the Backstage ecosystem. Gain insights from Microsoft engineers Will Tsai and Ryan Nowak as they share their experience building a developer dashboard that allows users to effectively interact with deployed applications and environments.