Syntasso in the News

Intellyx bestows this award on every vendor who makes it through Intellyx’s rigorous briefing selection process and delivers a successful briefing that results in coverage that year.

Many platforms solve today's problems but don’t scale. Move beyond simple tools to build platforms that pass key value tests and support long-term growth.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Recent industry developments, such as Amazon’s announcement of the new EKS capabilities, highlight a trend toward supporting platforms with managed GitOps, cloud resource operators, and composition tooling.

“Organizations are realizing that developers are still the internal customers who need platforms as products,” said Daniel Bryant at KubeCon NA 2025.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.