SYNTASSO BLOG

Workflow engines are having a moment in platform engineering. Tools like Temporal, Camunda, or n8n are being adopted to manage stateful automation, retries, and human approvals. They’re powerful, but they’re not platforms.  This post distils the workflow-engine thread from our webinar “Beyond the Platform Facade: Why Portals and Pipelines Aren’t Enough,” which Abby hosted and I presented.

Many organisations have invested heavily in Terraform, and rightly so. It’s a mature Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that automates infrastructure and streamlines workflows. However, when building an internal developer platform (IDP), IaC alone isn’t enough. To scale across teams and business needs, all while supporting seamless fleet management, you also need developer-friendly platform APIs and abstractions. That is where Kratix comes in.

Cloud-native engineering (and platform engineering ) is evolving quickly, and AI is at the centre of that shift. In the past, when a...

When building a platform, engineering leaders often focus on technology choices without first building a shared vision with developers, specialist teams and other stakeholders. This results in low adoption or, in the worst case, wasted investment. This article will provide a practical leadership framework for securing developer support before a single platform component is built.

Most internal platforms don’t fail on day one: they fail on day 2, 200, or 2000. What starts as a solid solution to today’s needs often turns into tomorrow’s bottleneck: brittle delivery processes, endless ticket queues, and systems so complex they collapse under their own weight. At Syntasso, we built Kratix to flip this pattern.