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Block F - Slot 17

Slot 17: 3:00 pm America/Los_Angeles - November 7, 2025

In Part 1, we talked about using Backdrop CMS to run your entire business, from job tracking to stadium screens. Now, let’s get our hands dirty and talk infrastructure. If your business apps are critical, you need speed, reliability, and full control over your data.

We're trading expensive cloud bills and vendor lock-in for a lean, powerful, self-hosted infrastructure stack that keeps you in the driver's seat.

This is a deep dive into what DevOps need to develop, deploy, and automate your mission-critical Backdrop applications:

  • Local Development Velocity: Getting instant, consistent dev environments with Laragon.
  • Debugging with xDebug
  • Containerised Production: Mastering stable, portable deployment by running Backdrop in Docker containers on an Unraid server.
  • The Automation Engine: Connecting your Backdrop database to the outside world using n8n to trigger emails, Slack messages, Zulip chats and system integrations, making your custom CMS talk to all your other services.
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  • All skill levels
  • Technical (even if no code)