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Today, we're introducing Upgrade Orchestration in the Syntasso Kratix Enterprise Platform Manager: a new capability that gives platform teams precise, declarative control over how platform changes are rolled out across an entire fleet.

PlatformCon has always been a useful signal for where platform engineering is heading. And this year’s London Live event didn’t disappoint. The Syntasso team were out and about, watching talks, chatting with folks, and sharing recordings of their virtual talks.

Our recent webinar explored what we can learn from putting AI directly in front of a platform. The discussion touched on platform engineering, developer experience, organisational design, and AI reliability, but the core insight was surprisingly simple...

AI is accelerating software creation faster than organisations can safely operationalise it. This is a summary of my talk at the O’Reilly Infrastructure and Ops Superstream on Platform Engineering and AI.

yntasso today announced the private preview release of Syntasso Kratix Agentic (SKA), a new platform orchestration solution designed to help enterprises move their existing technology landscape into the agentic AI era.

How The Access Group scaled AI-driven development with platform engineering, using Kratix to add structure, ensure reliability, and support 2,000+ applications.

At KubeCon, Nitish Malhotra from Veeam Software and Cat Morris from Syntasso explored how to avoid the day 2 platform hangover

Discover Platform Capability Factors, an open standard giving platform teams a clear model for building scalable, reusable capabilities.

The relatively recent move towards more centralised platforms stems from a desire to exert greater control following an era of sprawl introduced by DevOps. Yet on reflection, using the word “control” is likely not only unnecessary but also wrong. In the end, control is one solution that can be applied towards the cost and risk reduction outcome organisations are most concerned with, which can be better summarised as coherence.

Despite all of the investment in portals, templates, and Kubernetes operators, organisations are realising that investing in tech implementation feels productive, while actually, they are just stuck on a treadmill of refactoring automation.

Syntasso is excited to partner with Cortex. Together, we connect orchestration with organisational visibility, helping teams treat their platform as a product; one that is not only easy to consume but also measurable, governable, and continuously improved.

This is a summary of a talk about something most teams only notice when it goes wrong: debugging Kubernetes controllers.

The multi-vendor collaboration and Kubernetes SIG home demonstrates real momentum for kro. Each cloud provider recognises the value of a portable, Kubernetes-native model for grouping and orchestrating resources, and the importance of reducing manual dependency management for platform teams.

What's the difference between an internal developer platform and an internal developer portal? See how each works and why teams need both.

Platform engineering promises to accelerate delivery and reduce complexity, but if not approached deliberately, it can quickly become a cost sink. This article examines the hidden costs in platform engineering and explores cost-optimisation strategies to maintain a lean approach without compromising innovation.

When building a platform, engineering leaders often focus on technology choices without first building a shared vision with developers, specialist teams and other stakeholders. This results in low adoption or, in the worst case, wasted investment. This article will provide a practical leadership framework for securing developer support before a single platform component is built.

Platform engineers often lack visibility into their platform. With the new SKE GUI, that changes. Now available to Syntasso Kratix Enterprise users, it lets you view all Promises and resources, track their states, debug in real time, and explore how everything connects, all from a single interface.

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.

When we talk about internal developer platforms (IDPs), we’re often talking about abstracting complexity away from application teams, as explored in our post on platform democracy. But how far should that abstraction go? Poorly defined CI/CD abstractions can stall delivery and erode platform trust. This post examines how platform teams can avoid common pitfalls and design flexible, composable abstractions that empower developers while ensuring consistency and compliance.

As internal developer platforms evolve, one of the most pivotal decisions platform teams face is where to draw the line between platform and application ownership in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Abstraction is necessary for scale, but how much is too much? In this post, we’ll walk through four distinct CI/CD abstraction options and help you decide when each one makes sense.