Platform Challenge 8: Enabling High-Performing Teams to Stretch Safely Beyond Platform Defaults
Platforms usually provide an interface (a contract) between the user and the service it is providing. It usually abstracts away...
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Christopher Hedley
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
Platform Challenge 7: Maintaining Consistency Across Software Teams
Systems are all around us. They exist at incomprehensibly enormous scales, such as the complex global economy that we all operate within,...
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Derik Evangelista
- Dec 30, 2022
- 2 min
Platform Challenge 6: Codifying Your Business
Software teams—and the internal platform they use—do not exist in a vacuum. Quite the opposite. They are often inserted into a bigger...
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Winna Bridgewater
- Dec 29, 2022
- 2 min
Platform Challenge 5: Not All Service Experts Are on the Platform Team
Work across your organisation to build your platform as a product and ensure that your platform offerings leverage collective expertise.
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Abby Bangser
- Dec 28, 2022
- 3 min
Platform Challenge 4: Cognitive Load Has Shifted to Your Team
In the last couple of decades software delivery has gone through significant changes. Historically, software was subdivided into focused...
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Christopher Hedley
- Dec 27, 2022
- 2 min
Platform Challenge 3: You Can’t Buy What Only You Need
Build vs buy is a perennial conversation in the software industry. Buying a ready-made product that promises to deliver multiples of...
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Jake Klein
- Dec 26, 2022
- 3 min
Platform Challenge 2: Time Pressure Makes a Full Platform Rewrite Unlikely
The tech ecosystem is a rapidly changing space. Companies are often grappling with staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and...
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Abby Bangser
- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min
Platform Challenge 1: A Small Team Supporting a Big Platform
Over the last 6 years I have had the pleasure of working on a few amazing platform teams. In each case we had an outsized impact on the...
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Winna Bridgewater
- Dec 14, 2022
- 2 min
OCI? Oh, I see!
Last month at Kubernetes Community Days UK I gave a talk entitled “OCI? Oh, I see!”. Contrary to its title, the talk is not exclusively...
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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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