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After attending QCon London and KubeCon EU, we noticed a clear pattern. The same themes, challenges, and opportunities are emerging, but they are viewed through slightly different lenses.

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

In a recent Syntasso webinar, Rachael Wonnacott, Head of Cloud Engineering at Fidelity International, explored a simple but powerful idea: your platform is not an island. Platform teams do not operate in a vacuum. They sit inside a wider organisational ecosystem shaped by people, team structures, legacy technology, established processes, and differing levels of engineering maturity.

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.

Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) was built from the ground up to provide an enterprise-grade platform orchestrator that runs on-prem, in the cloud, or across hybrid estates without forcing a compromise.

In our recent webinar, Beyond the Booth at KubeCon, Abby Bangser, Cat Morris, and Daniel Bryant reflected on what we saw in Atlanta, from the rise of real AI workloads on Kubernetes to growing interest in platform product management and day-two operations. Here are the biggest takeaways.

Platform engineering is maturing quickly, but every conversation focuses on enterprises with hundreds of developers. Startups that consider platform engineering often struggle to know where to begin, and others dismiss the idea entirely. The goal of this article is not to tell you that you need platform engineering as a startup, but to help you checkmate if you do, and prepare you for the journey ahead.

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.”

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.

At SOOCon23, Abby Bangser delivered an insightful talk titled "Building a Great Internal Platform Starts with the API." Read the summary here!

A good internal platform is one that delivers speed, safety, efficiency, and scalability to meet the evolving needs of software teams.

We built Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) to support the orchestration of any platform resource—Kubernetes-native or not—with automation, governance, and scale in mind.

Check out the PlatEngDay London talks that included the Syntasso team. We cover platform as a product, banking platforms, product thinking, and platform adoption

Building on ideas first introduced in her blog post, Paula Kennedy, COO and co-founder of Syntasso shared real examples, answered questions, and gave tips for teams just getting started.

Explore what platform engineering can learn from over-the-air car updates; the secret is fleet management!

The most successful platform businesses rely on the network effect. The more valuable stuff your platform offers, the more users will be attracted to join. The more users you have consuming value, the more producers will want to add valuable stuff to your platform and so on. Cat Morris, Staff Product Manager at Syntasso talks about this in her latest blog post

In my recent talk at KubeCon EU, I aimed to share insights into the connection between software architecture and platform architecture

Platform Democracy is a model where developers, security teams, SREs, and even external service providers collaborate seamlessly.