Syntasso & Kratix in the News
From KubeCon keynotes to InfoQ columns, the Syntasso team spends almost as much time talking about platform engineering as building it. Below is our press coverage, contributed articles, podcasts, and webinars, spanning the shift from portals to platform as a product, the rise of AI platform engineering, and how teams are using internal developer platforms to cut cognitive load without losing developer autonomy.
Several pieces below touch on integrating Kratix with existing tooling, including running Backstage as a portal on top of Kratix rather than replacing it. Others dig into the failure modes we're watching closely, like platform decay and the "platform façade" problem, where a portal and some pipelines get called a platform without solving the underlying product problem.
If you'd rather see this in practice, our case studies, including NatWest, The Access Group, and Veeam, show what these ideas look like once they're running in production.
If you want to write about us or chat with any member of the team, email hello [at] syntasso.io.
News
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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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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Turning legacy to leverage: building developer platforms in brownfield environments
Cat Morris
30 September 2024
While building an internal developer platform sounds like something an engineering organisation would do – and often tries to do – from scratch, the reality is, most are working with a complex web of legacy systems and tools.










