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Daniel Bryant
Mar 47 min read
Platform Building Antipatterns: Slow, Low, and Just for Show
Recognising these antipatterns is essential to building platforms that empower devs, ops, and, critically, everyone else in your org.
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Abby Bangser
Feb 36 min read
Scaling Platform Building: Balancing What is Unique to Your Org and Common Across Teams
Platform engineering focuses on creating internal platforms that align with your organisation's needs.
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Daniel Bryant
Jan 103 min read
Three Trends to Watch in Platform Engineering for 2025
Platform engineering in 2025 will be shaped by composability, data-driven optimisation, and the transformative power of generative AI
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Daniel Bryant
Oct 15, 20242 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.
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Paula Kennedy
Oct 10, 20247 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...
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Daniel Bryant
Oct 2, 20246 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
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Daniel Bryant
Sep 18, 20243 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!
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Cat Morris
Sep 12, 20248 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!
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Colin Humphreys
Sep 5, 20248 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
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Daniel Bryant
May 24, 20242 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
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Daniel Bryant
Feb 29, 20246 min read
Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure
Learn more about platform orchestration, application choreography, and infrastructure composition.
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Christopher Hedley
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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