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As a platform engineer, your team launched a new application, and demand is growing rapidly. Thousands of users are signing up, so you...

Leaders embarking on a platform engineering journey should start by asking: “What is the goal of our platform engineering effort?

Platform engineering focuses on creating internal platforms that align with your organisation's needs.

Platform engineering in 2025 will be shaped by composability, data-driven optimisation, and the transformative power of generative AI

In my recent talk at QCon San Francisco, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on the evolution of platform engineering.

A summary of my talk, "Engineering Resilience into the Foundations: Key Strategies for Building Robust Internal Development Platforms."

Earlier in the month, I had the privilege of presenting two talks about platform orchestration at the JAX London event.

We often celebrate the individual platform engineering or DevOps hero or heroine who (purportedly) creates something ingenious alone, but...

Five lessons for building successful brownfield developer platforms -- and how to avoid my previous mistakes!

Learn more about platform orchestration, application choreography, and infrastructure composition.

The Syntasso team has a long history of open source and community engagement as well as being leaders within the platform engineering...

Back in early December 2022, we set ourselves the challenge of putting together a series of blogs describing the top 12 Platform...

I was on a team in 2017. An edict came from somewhere: we negotiated a rate with Google Cloud so you need to move from Amazon to Google....

So you've successfully migrated an application or team to a single Kubernetes cluster. Perhaps you're using a managed offering such as...

One of the challenges of running a Platform is the underlying technology which is, oftentimes, itself a platform. The choice of the...

In software there always seems to be more to do than time to do it. This is particularly true when it comes to often understaffed...

Systems are all around us. They exist at incomprehensibly enormous scales, such as the complex global economy that we all operate within,...

Software teams—and the internal platform they use—do not exist in a vacuum. Quite the opposite. They are often inserted into a bigger...

Work across your organisation to build your platform as a product and ensure that your platform offerings leverage collective expertise.

In the last couple of decades software delivery has gone through significant changes. Historically, software was subdivided into focused...