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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.

Article

Game on: Go Multiplayer Mode to Supercharge your Internal Platform

Paula Kennedy

4 September 2024

How can organizations level up the value of their internal platforms without massively expanding their platform teams? Paula Kennedy explores how to make your platform multiplayer.

Game on: Go Multiplayer Mode to Supercharge your Internal Platform

Article

5 Lessons For Building a Platform as a Product

Colin Humphreys

9 August 2024

Colin Humphreys explores how to organize and standardize aspects of your platform as much as possible to ensure ease of use and maintenance from day one to day 2,000 and beyond.

5 Lessons For Building a Platform as a Product

News

45 New Members Join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

CNCF

20 March 2024

As the community convenes at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris, CNCF welcomes continued investment from organizations like Syntasso.

45 New Members Join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

News

Developer Empowerment Via Platform Engineering, Self-Service Tooling

Jennifer Riggins (TNS)

15 November 2023

What app development teams most often want are tools to enable their speed and autonomy. To not only build, test and deploy with less friction, but to be able to understand what’s going on in their apps.

Developer Empowerment Via Platform Engineering, Self-Service Tooling

Article

InfoQ DevOps and Cloud Trends Report – July 2023

Steef-Jan Wiggers (InfoQ)

17 July 2023

Abby and Daniel participated in the InfoQ DevOps and Cloud Trends Report 2023, discussing how platform engineering is evolving toward simplification and value delivery, adopting a platform-as-a-service mindset.

InfoQ DevOps and Cloud Trends Report – July 2023

News

Internal Platform Framework Kratix Releases Community Marketplace

Matt Cambell (InfoQ)

14 January 2023

Kratix, an open-source framework for building internal platforms, has released a marketplace of community-provided Promises.

Internal Platform Framework Kratix Releases Community Marketplace

Article

Feel the fear and do it anyway!

Paula Kennedy

28 October 2021

Syntasso co-founder Paula Kennedy shares that it’s a strange feeling when you realise that even though you’ve worked in a space for more than four years, you’ve been in a very small bubble…

Feel the fear and do it anyway!

News

Build Platform Engineering as a Product for Dev Adoption

Todd R. Weiss (TNS)

2 September 2024

Adopting a platform engineering strategy is only the start of the process. Turning it into a valuable product that your developers will adopt and support is a critical part of the journey.

Build Platform Engineering as a Product for Dev Adoption

Podcast

Platforms, People and Process for Great Developer Experience

Shane Hastie (InfoQ)

12 July 2024

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Daniel Bryant, Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso, about engineering culture and developer experience.

Platforms, People and Process for Great Developer Experience

News

FINOS Welcomes Six Industry Leaders As New Members

FINOS

7 March 2024

Landmark additions of BlackRock, Microsoft, Publicis Sapient, Syntasso, Tidelift and Tradeheader to accelerate industry-wide adoption of critical FINOS projects across the value chain

FINOS Welcomes Six Industry Leaders As New Members

Article

MVP or TVP? Why Your Internal Developer Platform Needs Both

Abby Bangser

13 October 2023

Use the concept of the minimum viable product to introducing new ideas, and the thinnest viable platform to direct the lifespan of the product.

MVP or TVP? Why Your Internal Developer Platform Needs Both

Podcast

Platform Team Responsibilities, Patterns and Anti-patterns

Charles Humble

6 March 2023

Charles Humble talks to Paula Kennedy about the rise of platforms. They discuss platform definitions; common anti-patterns; setting up a platform team; lessons learned from Pivotal; and the Syntasso product.

Platform Team Responsibilities, Patterns and Anti-patterns

Webinar

Enlightning - Delivering Your Platform Your Way Using Kratix

Whitney Lee

16 August 2022

Abby Bangser joins Whitney Lee to explore Kubernetes's dynamic composability and how Kratix enables you to provide the tools (and platform) your users want in the way your company needs.

Enlightning - Delivering Your Platform Your Way Using Kratix
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