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You Don’t Need a Bigger Platform Team, You Need a More Collaborative One
Terms like “Platform as a Product” and “X-as-a-service” are everywhere, yet many companies still centralise all platform responsibilities in a single team. This results in cognitive overload, bottlenecks, and missed opportunities to tap into institutional knowledge.
This article reframes the discussion from “headcount” to “collaboration.”

Divine Odazie
Aug 225 min read


Syntasso Announces Partnership with Google Cloud to make SKE Available via Google Cloud Marketplace
Syntasso Announces Partnership with Google Cloud to make SKE Available via Google Cloud Marketplace

Daniel Bryant
Mar 262 min read


The IDP Revolution: Why Self-Service is the Key to Developer Empowerment
Software development should be seamless. The longer Developers have to wait, the less they create and this is why we need IDPs

Ikpemosi Victoria Braimoh
Mar 144 min read


Platform Democracy: Rethinking Who Builds and Consumes Your Internal Platform
Platform Democracy is a model where developers, security teams, SREs, and even external service providers collaborate seamlessly.

Colin Humphreys
Mar 103 min read


The Future of Secure Platforms: Scaling Security with Kratix
Internal platforms often manage highly sensitive data, making them prime targets for breaches, insider threats, and cyberattacks.
Christopher Hedley
Feb 215 min read


Building Scalable Internal Developer Platforms with Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE)
Learn how to build scalable internal developer platforms (IDPs) with Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE).
Abby Bangser
Feb 203 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.
Abby Bangser
Feb 36 min read


Platform Engineering Evolution: Trends and Future Impact on Software Delivery
In my recent talk at QCon San Francisco, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on the evolution of platform engineering.

Paula Kennedy
Dec 17, 20245 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...

Paula Kennedy
Oct 10, 20247 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!
Cat Morris
Sep 12, 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

Colin Humphreys
Sep 5, 20248 min read


Creating a Bespoke Platform as a Service: History Doesn't Repeat, but It Often Rhymes
How do you create an internal developer platform (IDP) or platform as a service (PaaS) that supports self-service?

Daniel Bryant
May 31, 20243 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

Daniel Bryant
May 24, 20242 min read


Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure
Learn more about platform orchestration, application choreography, and infrastructure composition.

Daniel Bryant
Feb 29, 20246 min read
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