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Oct 152 min read

Platform Orchestration and the Three Layers of Modern Platforms

Earlier in the month, I had the privilege of presenting two talks about platform orchestration at the JAX London event.

Oct 107 min read

Game on: Go Multiplayer Mode to Supercharge your Internal Platform

We often celebrate the individual platform engineering or DevOps hero or heroine who (purportedly) creates something ingenious alone, but...

Oct 26 min read

The Future of Platforms: The Invisible Glue Between Backstage and Terraform (Webinar Recap)

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

Sep 183 min read

Fast Flow Conf 2024: Shaping the Future of Platforms and Teams

Our summary of Fast Flow Conf 2024! Topics covered: fast value delivery to customers, the need for APIs, continuous stewardship, and more!

Sep 128 min read

Turning Legacy to Leverage: Building Developer Platforms in Brownfield Environments

Five lessons for building successful brownfield developer platforms -- and how to avoid my previous mistakes!

Sep 58 min read

Five Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Platform-as-a-Product

Colin Humphreys shares five key lessons for creating a successful platform-as-a-product from 20 years of working in platform engineering

May 242 min read

Automating Platform Abstractions: The Power of the Promise API

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

Feb 296 min read

Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure

Learn more about platform orchestration, application choreography, and infrastructure composition.

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Dec 9, 20227 min read

Building your Platform, your Way with Crossplane and Kratix

In this blog we’ll discuss how Syntasso is making it simple to build custom platforms using OSS projects Kratix and Crossplane. We will...

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