<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Syntasso Kratix Enterprise]]></title><description><![CDATA[Syntasso are the creators of Kratix, an open-source platform framework that helps your ideal platform.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/blog-all-posts</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:08:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.syntasso.io/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Not Everything Should Be Level 4 AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some work needs a human's full attention and some doesn't. The trick isn't how much AI you use, it's knowing which is which, and who's going to read it.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/not-everything-should-be-level-4-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a992996dcc021399d4d2f7a</guid><category><![CDATA[AI]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:04:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ac5bd_b99a0302be684957aa46e853f6944b89~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_410,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Abby  Bangser</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is Infrastructure Orchestration? A Clear Definition for Platform Teams]]></title><description><![CDATA[Infrastructure orchestration is one of three layers a platform needs. Here's what it actually means and how it fits with platform orchestration. ]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/what-is-infrastructure-orchestration-a-clear-definition-for-platform-teams</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9828b279e2b90bfeae1310</guid><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:58:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_1e87a686c82e4a12a23c0e1145bfd33e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Bryant</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Agent Guardrails Don't Work. Safer Platforms Do.]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents are powerful because they're unpredictable, which is exactly why guardrails alone can't make them safe in production. Platform orchestration that only executes safe commands, not more guardrails, is what actually protects your infrastructure.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/ai-agent-guardrails-don-t-work-safer-platforms-do</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8eadef836b1f3da5faa752</guid><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:24:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_626c675ee6764c0796b9f7f65c818021~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_768,h_512,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Abby  Bangser</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Platform Orchestration Tools for 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[A practical comparison of Kratix, KubeVela, KusionStack, and Humanitec, and how to tell a platform orchestrator from an application orchestrator]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/top-platform-orchestration-tools</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8c240c4e12adafbf7f2293</guid><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:18:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_6986ab34f9d24678bfb33592a8d09d43~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_768,h_512,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Bryant</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Agent Harness: A Platform Deliverable, Not a Workstation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The agent harness shouldn't be assembled per team from loose configs. 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See how enterprises govern AI agents at scale without slowing delivery down. ]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/ai-agents-real-problem-is-platform-orchestration-not-the-model</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7db7709eafd9eb8e599bee</guid><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:30:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_c5a846b42bb34a4f95842b9b4bd62065~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Abby  Bangser</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kubernetes Noisy Neighbour Problem Is Actually a Permissions Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Giving every team direct Kubernetes API access to build custom controllers creates a noisy neighbour problem. 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Learn what it involves, how it differs from MLOps, and why platform engineering is where it belongs.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/what-is-llmops-and-how-does-it-relate-to-platform-engineering</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7099553e65a962ca847075</guid><category><![CDATA[AI]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:44:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_475bcc9df33a4ddbbcf9c9ca502d24fe~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Bryant</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Platform Team Becomes the Bottleneck]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently gave a talk called "Your Platform Team Is the Bottleneck: Operating Internal Platforms at Enterprise Scale," and the title wasn't meant to be provocative for its own sake. It's just what I keep seeing. I've been a platform engineer, and I've owned platform teams, and the pattern repeats itself almost every time an organisation grows past a certain size: the team that was supposed to remove friction becomes the place where everything gets stuck. That's not a failure of the people on...]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/when-the-platform-team-becomes-the-bottleneck</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6b1bd67eb62fe370648776</guid><category><![CDATA[Content Summaries]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:51:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_975e1503300c4902a1634987422e22c7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Bryant</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syntasso Kratix Enterprise and Syntasso Kratix Agentic Now Available on AWS Marketplace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) and Syntasso Kratix Agentic (SKA) are now available on the AWS Marketplace. ]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/syntasso-kratix-enterprise-and-syntasso-kratix-agentic-now-available-on-aws-marketplace</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a607d70362153aea0d60c73</guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:41:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_45338f7d66f54428bcd2d69323cf6793~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_768,h_512,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paula Kennedy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building Composable Platforms That Actually Scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daniel Bryant shares the key lessons from his KubeCon NA 2025 talk on composable platform architectures, platform as a product, governance, APIs, and building platforms that scale.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/building-composable-platforms-that-actually-scale</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5a490b1d5e5abb0edf5579</guid><category><![CDATA[Events]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:35:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05AxSXIQz6w" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Daniel Bryant</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introducing Upgrade Orchestration: Safe Fleet Operations for Enterprise Platforms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, we're introducing Upgrade Orchestration in the Syntasso Kratix Enterprise Platform Manager: a new capability that gives platform teams precise, declarative control over how platform changes are rolled out across an entire fleet.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/introducing-upgrade-orchestration-safe-fleet-operations-for-enterprise-platforms</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a54c0871af4ced1c1720a05</guid><category><![CDATA[Product Updates]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:25:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_ada083a5107e43c2bf22bb793c93820f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_768,h_512,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cat Morris</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walking Skeletons, Not Prototypes: Rethinking What a Platform POV Should Prove]]></title><description><![CDATA[Upgrades felt too big for our customer's SKE POV. That's probably not unusual. 
However, the whole point of a good POV is to surface real concerns early, before the decision is made. Learn more about our platform orchestrator POV process.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/walking-skeletons-not-prototypes-rethinking-what-a-platform-pov-should-prove</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a54f0aab644d50072f4cf46</guid><category><![CDATA[Kratix]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:21:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_fdcc545a168545b9a5240a69d2f7065a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_768,h_512,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Abby  Bangser</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Is Changing Software Engineering. The Fundamentals Still Matter.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was fortunate to join almost 70 people at the European Future of Software Engineering (FOSE) retreat, hosted by Thoughtworks. AI dominated every conversation at FOSE. Surprisingly, though, the biggest lesson wasn't about better models or autonomous agents. It was that the organisations moving fastest are investing in better boundaries. Across the diverse experiences, there was also a theme of "slow is smooth and smooth is fast". Investing in the right primitives unlocks tremendous...]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/ai-is-changing-software-engineering-the-fundamentals-still-matter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a47c4769ac9a398d13091b4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:27:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ac5bd_c95058a3548c416fb2d3b3240dad1ece~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Abby  Bangser</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[OSFF London 2026: Platforms, AI and Open Source Are Converging]]></title><description><![CDATA[Previous OSFF events had many discussions about whether AI would be adopted in financial services. This year, the assumption is that it will be. The questions are now about governance, security, operational resilience, and how platforms need to evolve to support it all safely.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/osff-london-2026-platforms-ai-and-open-source-are-converging</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a42737151416e35e78318b9</guid><category><![CDATA[Events]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:49:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_7252a35fed0543cf9baa7968dc4fbf99~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_836,h_471,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paula Kennedy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[PlatformCon 2026: AI Is Raising the Stakes for Platform Engineering]]></title><description><![CDATA[PlatformCon has always been a useful signal for where platform engineering is heading. And this year’s London Live event didn’t disappoint. The Syntasso team were out and about, watching talks, chatting with folks, and sharing recordings of their virtual talks.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/platformcon-2026-ai-is-raising-the-stakes-for-platform-engineering</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3be75b09be4f094fc23a47</guid><category><![CDATA[Events]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:35:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_9e47e89b78474cdf9d5f32954f252280~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_982,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Bryant</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lessons from Putting AI in Front of a Platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our recent webinar explored what we can learn from putting AI directly in front of a platform. The discussion touched on platform engineering, developer experience, organisational design, and AI reliability, but the core insight was surprisingly simple...]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/lessons-from-putting-ai-in-front-of-a-platform</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a39466abc774dc6e46e22cd</guid><category><![CDATA[Webinar Summary]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:49:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuPPRNJIIkE" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Daniel Bryant</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[June Webinar: Lessons from Putting AI in Front of a Platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents are powerful. They're also wildly unpredictable when you put them in front of real platforms. Join us for our latest webinar, "Lessons from Putting AI in Front of a Platform," on June 18th!]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/june-webinar-lessons-from-putting-ai-in-front-of-a-platform</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a296f078ae4d2c74dcfc955</guid><category><![CDATA[Events]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:13:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_e1c46b62456540179d142420c4c3b560~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_836,h_471,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Bryant</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agentic AI Needs Safe Interfaces to Infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this post, we’ll look at why AI systems and agents need safe interfaces to infrastructure, how platforms provide those boundaries, and how Syntasso Kratix Agentic (SKA) helps teams expose operational capabilities that both humans and agents can consume safely.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/agentic-ai-needs-safe-interfaces-to-infrastructure</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1d96217ab417a19fc0769a</guid><category><![CDATA[AI]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:44:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_54bc9b16f4814c4c9386a7dad2f73631~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>John Mikos</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI is accelerating software creation faster than organisations can safely operationalise it. This is a summary of my talk at the O’Reilly Infrastructure and Ops Superstream on Platform Engineering and AI.]]></description><link>https://www.syntasso.io/post/platform-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai-why-operational-complexity-is-the-new-bottleneck</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0c4b7bdf43effc8ce72115</guid><category><![CDATA[Platform Engineering]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:36:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a65811_a5804a721a3b4b5f8a830402126b9b38~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Bryant</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>