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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.

Cloud Foundry wasn’t a theory, a proof of concept, or a fashionable idea that briefly caught on. It was a production platform used by hundreds of large enterprises to run real workloads, often in highly-regulated environments, at a global scale. More importantly, it proved something that many organisations still struggle to accept today: platforms, when built and operated well, can dramatically improve speed and safety at the same time.