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Introducing Upgrade Orchestration: Safe Fleet Operations for Enterprise Platforms
Today, we're introducing Upgrade Orchestration in the Syntasso Kratix Enterprise Platform Manager: a new capability that gives platform teams precise, declarative control over how platform changes are rolled out across an entire fleet.


Walking Skeletons, Not Prototypes: Rethinking What a Platform POV Should Prove
Upgrades felt too big for our customer's SKE POV. That's probably not unusual.
However, the whole point of a good POV is to surface real concerns early, before the decision is made. Learn more about our platform orchestrator POV process.


Lessons from Putting AI in Front of a Platform
Our recent webinar explored what we can learn from putting AI directly in front of a platform. The discussion touched on platform engineering, developer experience, organisational design, and AI reliability, but the core insight was surprisingly simple...
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The Agent Harness: A Platform Deliverable, Not a Workstation
The agent harness shouldn't be assembled per team from loose configs. Here's why platform teams should deliver it as a versioned, catalogued capability.
Abby Bangser
Aug 145 min read


AI Agents' Real Problem Is Platform Orchestration, Not the Model
Why AI rollouts stall isn't the model; it's platform orchestration. See how enterprises govern AI agents at scale without slowing delivery down.
Abby Bangser
Aug 135 min read


The Kubernetes Noisy Neighbour Problem Is Actually a Permissions Problem
Giving every team direct Kubernetes API access to build custom controllers creates a noisy neighbour problem. Here's the abstraction that avoids it.
Abby Bangser
Aug 105 min read


What Is LLMOps and How Does It Relate to Platform Engineering?
LLMOps keeps large language models reliable in production. Learn what it involves, how it differs from MLOps, and why platform engineering is where it belongs.

Daniel Bryant
Aug 39 min read


When the Platform Team Becomes the Bottleneck
I recently gave a talk called "Your Platform Team Is the Bottleneck: Operating Internal Platforms at Enterprise Scale," and the title wasn't meant to be provocative for its own sake. It's just what I keep seeing. I've been a platform engineer, and I've owned platform teams, and the pattern repeats itself almost every time an organisation grows past a certain size: the team that was supposed to remove friction becomes the place where everything gets stuck. That's not a failure

Daniel Bryant
Jul 305 min read


Syntasso Kratix Enterprise and Syntasso Kratix Agentic Now Available on AWS Marketplace
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) and Syntasso Kratix Agentic (SKA) are now available on the AWS Marketplace.

Paula Kennedy
Jul 272 min read


Building Composable Platforms That Actually Scale
Daniel Bryant shares the key lessons from his KubeCon NA 2025 talk on composable platform architectures, platform as a product, governance, APIs, and building platforms that scale.

Daniel Bryant
Jul 175 min read


Introducing Upgrade Orchestration: Safe Fleet Operations for Enterprise Platforms
Today, we're introducing Upgrade Orchestration in the Syntasso Kratix Enterprise Platform Manager: a new capability that gives platform teams precise, declarative control over how platform changes are rolled out across an entire fleet.
Cat Morris
Jul 136 min read


Walking Skeletons, Not Prototypes: Rethinking What a Platform POV Should Prove
Upgrades felt too big for our customer's SKE POV. That's probably not unusual.
However, the whole point of a good POV is to surface real concerns early, before the decision is made. Learn more about our platform orchestrator POV process.
Abby Bangser
Jul 135 min read


AI Is Changing Software Engineering. The Fundamentals Still Matter.
I was fortunate to join almost 70 people at the European Future of Software Engineering (FOSE) retreat, hosted by Thoughtworks. AI dominated every conversation at FOSE. Surprisingly, though, the biggest lesson wasn't about better models or autonomous agents. It was that the organisations moving fastest are investing in better boundaries. Across the diverse experiences, there was also a theme of "slow is smooth and smooth is fast". Investing in the right primitives unlocks tre
Abby Bangser
Jul 34 min read


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