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Scaling Prometheus for multiple teams is no small feat as each team typically needs a dedicated instance to monitor their applications. This post shows how Kratix lets you expose Prometheus as a reusable and GitOps-friendly service.

At first glance, providing developers with Terraform modules appears straightforward; modules encapsulate best practices, making it easy for users to provision infrastructure. However, problems quickly surface

Building on ideas first introduced in her blog post, Paula Kennedy, COO and co-founder of Syntasso shared real examples, answered questions, and gave tips for teams just getting started.

Platform engineers work hard to manage traffic and protect applications that are critical to business operations. When these applications receive too much traffic, they can slow down or crash completely, causing poor user experience and service outages. To solve this, these platform engineers can leverage Kratix, an open-source framework for building internal developer platforms, to automate the deployment, management, and maintenance of NGINX Ingress Controllers

Abby Bangser, Founding Principal Engineer at Syntasso, sat down with Cory O’Daniel, CEO and co-founder of Massdriver, and delved into the nuances of building effective internal platforms. Drawing from real-world implementations, Abby explored how platform teams can strike the right balance between standardisation, flexibility, and service-oriented thinking.

Organisations aiming for growth and efficiency require a fully automated internal developer platform, not just a centralised dashboard. If you’re aiming to improve developer productivity and ensure security and compliance, you should consider moving from an Internal Developer Portal to an Internal Developer Platform.

The limitations of monolithic architectures—such as inflexibility and challenges with scalability and agility—have led to the widespread...

Software development should be seamless. The longer Developers have to wait, the less they create and this is why we need IDPs

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...