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Syntasso in the News

Read the latest news coverage on Syntasso and Kratix and explore our externally contributed articles, podcasts, and webinars.

 

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How Cover Whale Scaled Its Developer Platform Beyond an MVP

Laurent Sibilla

31 October 2025

It navigated Helm sprawl, integrated non-Kubernetes resources like NATS and managed secrets by adopting a promise-based approach with Kratix.

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Portals and Pipelines Aren’t Enough: Avoiding the Platform Façade

Daniel Bryant

8 October 2025

One of the most common pitfalls we see is what we call the platform façade: Stitching together a developer portal, some workflow automation and a handful of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and calling it a platform.

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Platform engineering is about more than what’s going on Backstage

Joe Fay (CW)

8 September 2025

ComputerWeekly speaks to industry experts (including Paula Kennedy) about how they see the role of platform engineering supporting DevOps

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Building Effective Data Platforms: Lessons in Flexibility, Governance and Scale

Paula Kennedy

17 July 2025

Paula shares how teams can build data platforms that are not only technically sound but also operationally sustainable and organisationally scalable.

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Platform Democracy: Rethinking Who Builds and Consumes Your Internal Platform

Colin Humphreys

23 May 2025

Colin Humphreys shares his thoughts on the benefits of platform democracy, which overlaps with topics like platform co-creation and innersourcing.

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Instruqt in Action - Live workshop with Phillip Morton and Abby Bangser

Abby Bangser

14 April 2025

Phill Morton from The Access Group and Abby Bangser needed a way to engage tech-savvy attendees at a KubeCon workshop and turned to Instruqt.

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The Missing Piece in Platform Engineering: Recognizing Producers

Cat Morris

12 March 2025

Syntasso's Cat Morris argues that you may find that focusing on your producer persona brings more platform capabilities and makes your customers happy.

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Is Your Internal Developer Platform Missing Orchestration?

Jennifer Riggins (TNS)

13 December 2024

A developer portal works top-down. Terraform and Kubernetes have teams building bottom-up. What about a platform engineering strategy that works from the middle out? A summary of Daniel Bryant's KCD UK talk.

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Platform Engineering: The Pioneers Who Built It

Todd R. Weiss (TNS)

5 December 2024

Many developers and IT thinkers have been working for years to find better ways of developing software. Here are the stories of some of the people who created platform engineering, including several Syntassians.

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Syntasso: Revolutionizing Platform Engineering

Colin Humphreys

28 November 2024

Syntasso is on a mission to redefine platform engineering. Their vision is clear: simplify the journey for platform teams while helping them unlock unparalleled efficiency, scalability, and success.

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8 platform engineering anti-patterns

Bill Doerrfeld (Ind)

20 October 2025

Golden paths gone gray? Avoid these common mistakes that sink platform engineering initiatives (including quotes from Paula Kennedy).

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Five Start-ups Not to Miss at KubeCon 2025

Tom Fenton (VCR)

6 October 2025

One of the most exciting aspects of KubeCon is the presence of startups at the event as this is where fresh ideas and projects are formulated and presented to the public, and KubeCon has a rich history of fostering these companies.

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Kratix, kubriX und OpenChoreo: Developer-Plattformen für Kubernetes im Vergleich

Artem Lajko (Ind)

21 August 2025

[DE] Auf Kubernetes-Operatoren und deklarative Ressourcen zugeschnittene IDPs bieten Entwicklern Self-Service, Automatisierung und Sicherheit.

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Beyond Platform Engineering: The Rise of Platform Democracy

Todd R. Weiss (TNS)

4 June 2025

Platform democracy is evolving platform engineering by giving developers, security teams and other stakeholders a voice in shaping internal development platforms.

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Inner Sourcing Isn’t a Platform Engineering Silver Bullet

Abby Bangser

1 May 2025

Abby Bangser explores the role of inner sourcing when building a platform.

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Why Your Platform Engineering Isn’t Scaling and how to fix it

Daniel Bryant

13 March 2025

Daniel Bryant explores why platform engineering has become a buzzword, leading some to lose sight of its true purpose: delivering measurable business value beyond Day One.

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Platform Engineering on the Brink: Breakthrough or Bust?

Jennifer Riggins (TNS)

18 February 2025

Is platform engineering at a crossroads? Will it fulfill its promise or fade away? At State of Open Con, a panel weighed what's ahead for the movement.

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What Makes the Ideal Platform Engineer?

Sooraj Shah (TNS)

12 December 2024

Here’s a guide to what aspiring platform engineers need to know from experts in the field (including Syntasso's Abby Bangser) and data to back it up.

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Syntasso Wins OpenUK Startup of the Year 2024

OpenUK

28 November 2024

OpenUK announced Syntasso as the winner of their "Startup of the Year!" 2024 award. Kratix, the framework for building composable internal developer platforms, placed second in the "Open Source Software" category.

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Platform Engineering Is The New DevOps

Justin Warren (Forbes)

21 November 2024

With a quote from Paula Kennedy, COO at Syntasso, this article explores how platform engineering is overtaking DevOps as the term cloud native people use to describe themselves.

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