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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"