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After attending QCon London and KubeCon EU, we noticed a clear pattern. The same themes, challenges, and opportunities are emerging, but they are viewed through slightly different lenses.

In a recent Syntasso webinar, Rachael Wonnacott, Head of Cloud Engineering at Fidelity International, explored a simple but powerful idea: your platform is not an island. Platform teams do not operate in a vacuum. They sit inside a wider organisational ecosystem shaped by people, team structures, legacy technology, established processes, and differing levels of engineering maturity.

In our recent webinar, Beyond the Booth at KubeCon, Abby Bangser, Cat Morris, and Daniel Bryant reflected on what we saw in Atlanta, from the rise of real AI workloads on Kubernetes to growing interest in platform product management and day-two operations. Here are the biggest takeaways.

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.

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.

In our first webinar of 2025, Daniel Bryant was joined by Abby Bangser and Jake Klein to explore the topic "Building Scalable Internal Devel

A webinar summary of “The Future of Platforms: The Invisible Glue Between Backstage and Terraform” with Abby Bangser and Daniel Bryant

A summary of our webinar, "Platform Engineering for Execs: Team Topologies, Tools, and Trade-offs"

In our most recent webinar, we delved into the intriguing convergence of Terraform and Backstage, two pivotal technologies reshaping the lan

Last week, Abby Bangser hosted Cat Morris and me for a webinar focusing on "Platform Engineering and the Hype Cycle: Traversing the...

Explore the key takeaways of Abby Bangser's recent webinar, "The #1 Platform Engineering Problem You've Never Heard Of: Platform Decay"