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
- 8 min
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
- Aug 29
- 4 min
Top Five Platform Engineering Books for 2024
The top five platform engineering books for 2024 include Platform Strategy, Team Topologies, Infrastructure as Code, SRE, and Accelerate.
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Daniel Bryant
- Aug 21
- 3 min
Platform Engineering for Execs: Team Topologies, Tools & Trade-offs (Webinar Recap)
A summary of our webinar, "Platform Engineering for Execs: Team Topologies, Tools, and Trade-offs"
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Daniel Bryant
- Jul 25
- 3 min
Why Implement "Progressive Disclosure" in your Internal Developer Platform and Portal?
Have you considered using "progressive disclosure" within your internal developer platform (IDP) to help manage cognitive load?
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Paula Kennedy
- Jul 16
- 3 min
FINOS Open Source in Finance Forum in London: Event Summary
The Syntasso team attended last month's FINOS Open Source in Finance Forum in London and learned a lot!
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Derik Evangelista
- Jul 12
- 7 min
I Promise Not to Break Production
Promoting Promises through Environments with Kratix The heart of Kratix, the framework for building platforms, are the Promises. Via...
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Colin Humphreys
- Jul 10
- 3 min
Syntasso and MomentumAI Announce Partnership: Making Platform as a Product a Reality for Enterprises
I am thrilled to announce an exciting new platform engineering partnership between Syntasso and MomentumAI.
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Daniel Bryant
- Jun 20
- 4 min
Platform Engineering and the Hype Cycle: Traversing the Trough of Disillusionment (Webinar Recap)
Last week, Abby Bangser hosted Cat Morris and me for a webinar focusing on "Platform Engineering and the Hype Cycle: Traversing the...
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Daniel Bryant
- Jun 13
- 2 min
PlatformCon 2024 Recap: Watch the Syntassians Speak!
The Syntasso team have enjoyed participating in PlatformCon London Live and the online event this week! We'll share more of our thoughts...
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Daniel Bryant
- May 16
- 4 min
The #1 Platform Engineering Problem You've Never Heard Of: Platform Decay (Webinar Recap)
Explore the key takeaways of Abby Bangser's recent webinar, "The #1 Platform Engineering Problem You've Never Heard Of: Platform Decay"
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Paula Kennedy
- May 1
- 4 min
KubeCrash Platform Engineering Recap: From Silo Busting to Thinnest Viable Platforms
The Syntasso team thoroughly enjoyed participating in three sessions at last week’s awesome KubeCrash  event, which focused on “Platform...
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Daniel Bryant
- Apr 4
- 4 min
KubeCon EU Paris: The (Re)Emergence of Platform as a Product
The Syntasso team have finally unpacked our bags from an amazing KubeCon EU in Paris, and we’re keen to share our learnings!Â
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Daniel Bryant
- Feb 29
- 6 min
Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure
Learn more about platform orchestration, application choreography, and infrastructure composition.
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Christopher Hedley
- Jan 17, 2023
- 3 min
Kratix and Backstage: A Perfect Pair
Backstage and Kratix were designed to work perfectly together to turn your portal into a platform.
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Christopher Hedley
- Dec 9, 2022
- 7 min
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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