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When the CNCF Platforms Working Group published the Platform Engineering Maturity Model in late 2023, it felt like an important milestone. Now, I’m excited to share that the next stage in this work is underway. After almost a year of deliberation, testing, and editing, it’s now available in prototype form.

As internal platforms evolve, composability has become a key way to build safe, scalable systems that still give developers freedom. This post explains how composable environments and business-aware PaaS help deliver the value of platform engineering, and how to use them without making common mistakes.

Terms like “Platform as a Product” and “X-as-a-service” are everywhere, yet many companies still centralise all platform responsibilities in a single team. This results in cognitive overload, bottlenecks, and missed opportunities to tap into institutional knowledge. This article reframes the discussion from “headcount” to “collaboration.”

The future of platform engineering isn’t just cloud-native; it’s now AI-native. Would you agree with that? Whether your answer is yes or...

Like many software delivery teams, engineers at Syntasso have been experimenting with ways to integrate LLMs into our internal developer experience. In one of our recent internal hack days, I tried wiring up a Claude Desktop interface to Kratix using FastMCP. The idea was simple: could engineers ask natural-language questions, assemble a platform, and get something deployed without learning YAML or kubectl?

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

Continuous compliance is an essential practice in today’s fast-paced software development environment.

Have you considered using "progressive disclosure" within your internal developer platform (IDP) to help manage cognitive load?

This X thread about platform automation and abstraction from the ever-insightful Kelsey Hightower has been living in my head rent-free for t

The Syntasso team thoroughly enjoyed participating in three sessions at last week’s awesome KubeCrash  event, which focused on “Platform...

The Syntasso team have finally unpacked our bags from an amazing KubeCon EU in Paris, and we’re keen to share our learnings!