SYNTASSO BLOG

This update is full of the cool things we’ve been up to over the past year, from new features to our collaboration with customers. But before we dig into that, let's refresh ourselves on what our 2025 strategy was and whether we followed it

This year, we continued to engage with the community at major events, ship improvements to Kratix, and expand the conversation around platform engineering, all while exploring what matters most to platform builders. As 2025 draws to a close, here are our thoughts as to why platform engineering has firmly moved into its next phase.

Platform engineering has matured quickly over the last few years. Self-service works on day one. But day two and beyond — governance, change, policy enforcement, and fleet-wide consistency — is where things start to creak. This is where platform orchestration becomes the missing piece. In this post, we’ll connect the dots between platform intent and platform reality, using Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE).

Can GenAI solve the platform engineer’s biggest pains? Can it accelerate platform delivery, improve developer experience, and make infrastructure more secure and efficient? The short answer is yes, but only if your platform is designed to provide AI with a solid foundation to work with. The missing ingredient is structure.

The multi-vendor collaboration and Kubernetes SIG home demonstrates real momentum for kro. Each cloud provider recognises the value of a portable, Kubernetes-native model for grouping and orchestrating resources, and the importance of reducing manual dependency management for platform teams.

Platform engineering is maturing quickly, but every conversation focuses on enterprises with hundreds of developers. Startups that consider platform engineering often struggle to know where to begin, and others dismiss the idea entirely.  The goal of this article is not to tell you that you need platform engineering as a startup, but to help you checkmate if you do, and prepare you for the journey ahead. 

When embracing cloud and container technologies, it’s tempting to think of fleet management as a challenge for tomorrow. But the reality is that the majority of organisations quickly bump into the need to run multiple VMs, container, and Kubernetes clusters. This is where Kratix comes in. In this guide, we’ll explore how Kratix enables you to orchestrate and deploy services seamlessly across a fleet.

Almost every developer knows the pain of waiting days or even weeks for a single ticket to be resolved. This entire cycle, with all its delays and inefficiencies, is what's called TicketOps. In this article, we'll define what TicketOps is, explain why it's a bottleneck you can't afford to ignore, and explore seven practical steps to help you eliminate it for good.

As more teams embrace platform engineering, golden paths have become the go-to approach for streamlining developer workflows. Fundamentally, it solves the “how can/should I do this?” problem for developers in engineering teams. The goal is to set up a complete development environment, with the networking, integration, security, governance, compliance, and deployment aspects of the software delivery pipeline —

Platform engineering is full of trade-offs. Cost, speed, or reduced risk. Developer autonomy or governance and compliance. We hear it all the time: “We can’t have both.” But that’s not true. When you combine Kratix Promises with a Secrets Manager, you get both. This isn’t an either / or story. It’s a great AND story that brings together your developer experience and enterprise-grade security.