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Jun 24, 20265 min
PlatformCon 2026: AI Is Raising the Stakes for Platform Engineering
PlatformCon has always been a useful signal for where platform engineering is heading. And this year’s London Live event didn’t disappoint. The Syntasso team were out and about, watching talks, chatting with folks, and sharing recordings of their virtual talks.

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Jun 22, 20267 min
Lessons from Putting AI in Front of a Platform
Our recent webinar explored what we can learn from putting AI directly in front of a platform. The discussion touched on platform engineering, developer experience, organisational design, and AI reliability, but the core insight was surprisingly simple...

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Jun 10, 20262 min
June Webinar: Lessons from Putting AI in Front of a Platform
AI agents are powerful. They're also wildly unpredictable when you put them in front of real platforms. Join us for our latest webinar, "Lessons from Putting AI in Front of a Platform," on June 18th!

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May 19, 20265 min
Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck
AI is accelerating software creation faster than organisations can safely operationalise it. This is a summary of my talk at the O’Reilly Infrastructure and Ops Superstream on Platform Engineering and AI.

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May 13, 20263 min
Announcing Syntasso Kratix Agentic (SKA): Enterprise Platform Orchestration for AI Agents
yntasso today announced the private preview release of Syntasso Kratix Agentic (SKA), a new platform orchestration solution designed to help enterprises move their existing technology landscape into the agentic AI era.

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May 5, 20265 min
From the Floor: Platform Engineering Insights from QCon & KubeCon
After attending QCon London and KubeCon EU, we noticed a clear pattern. The same themes, challenges, and opportunities are emerging, but they are viewed through slightly different lenses.

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Apr 20, 20265 min
From Platform Sprawl to Producer-Consumer: Lessons from Veeam’s Day Two Reality
At KubeCon, Nitish Malhotra from Veeam Software and Cat Morris from Syntasso explored how to avoid the day 2 platform hangover

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Apr 7, 20269 min
Your Platform Is Not an Island: Building for Your Ecosystem
In a recent Syntasso webinar, Rachael Wonnacott, Head of Cloud Engineering at Fidelity International, explored a simple but powerful idea: your platform is not an island. Platform teams do not operate in a vacuum. They sit inside a wider organisational ecosystem shaped by people, team structures, legacy technology, established processes, and differing levels of engineering maturity.

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Mar 27, 20266 min
From Building Platforms to Delivering Capabilities: KubeCon + PlatEngDay EU 2026 Summary
We’ve just arrived home after an exciting few days in Amsterdam for KubeCon EU 2026. Here's a summary of our key learnings from PlatEngDay and the main event.

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Mar 12, 20264 min
Syntasso and Cortex: Making Platform Orchestration Visible, Governed, and Ready to Scale
Syntasso is excited to partner with Cortex. Together, we connect orchestration with organisational visibility, helping teams treat their platform as a product; one that is not only easy to consume but also measurable, governable, and continuously improved.

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Mar 9, 20265 min
Kratix Anywhere: Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid Without Compromise
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) was built from the ground up to provide an enterprise-grade platform orchestrator that runs on-prem, in the cloud, or across hybrid estates without forcing a compromise.

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Dec 22, 20254 min
From Platform Vision to Reality: Syntasso Kratix Enterprise in Practice
Platform engineering has matured quickly over the last few years. Self-service works on day one. But day two and beyond — governance, change, policy enforcement, and fleet-wide consistency — is where things start to creak. This is where platform orchestration becomes the missing piece. In this post, we’ll connect the dots between platform intent and platform reality, using Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE).

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Dec 16, 20256 min
Beyond the Booth at KubeCon: What We Learned About Platform Engineering, AI, and Scale
In our recent webinar, Beyond the Booth at KubeCon, Abby Bangser, Cat Morris, and Daniel Bryant reflected on what we saw in Atlanta, from the rise of real AI workloads on Kubernetes to growing interest in platform product management and day-two operations. Here are the biggest takeaways.

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Oct 29, 20254 min
Syntasso at PlatEngDay and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025
We’re heading to Atlanta for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, and this year’s lineup is one you won’t want to miss. From insightful talks on platform engineering patterns to deep dives into Kubernetes observability, the Syntasso team will share practical lessons, open-source insights, and a new O’Reilly report that’s shaping how enterprises think about internal developer platforms.

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Sep 26, 20254 min
Beyond Portals and Pipelines: Where Workflow Engines Help (and Where They Don’t)
Workflow engines are having a moment in platform engineering. Tools like Temporal, Camunda, or n8n are being adopted to manage stateful automation, retries, and human approvals. They’re powerful, but they’re not platforms. This post distils the workflow-engine thread from our webinar “Beyond the Platform Facade: Why Portals and Pipelines Aren’t Enough,” which Abby hosted and I presented.

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Jul 29, 20256 min
Beyond the Platform Façade: Escaping the Portals and Pipelines Trap
Learn more about the platform engineering portals and pipelines antipatterns, and understand why platform orchestration is essential

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Jul 14, 20253 min
Building a Great Internal Platform Starts with the API
At SOOCon23, Abby Bangser delivered an insightful talk titled "Building a Great Internal Platform Starts with the API." Read the summary here!

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Jul 11, 20256 min
The Internal Platform Scorecard: Speed, Safety, Efficiency, and Scalability
A good internal platform is one that delivers speed, safety, efficiency, and scalability to meet the evolving needs of software teams.

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Jul 10, 20257 min
Why Platform Orchestrators Are the Missing Link in Your Internal Developer Platform
For many years, my peers and I have been discussing the concept of building “golden paths” for developers. These golden paths lead the...

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Jul 3, 20253 min
Scaling the Sound: How Spotify's Fleet-First Mindset Transformed Platform Engineering
Spotify’s story underscores a critical truth about platform engineering at scale: autonomy without alignment leads to fragmentation and toil. Their fleet-first journey shows that centralisation and automation, when done right, don’t limit developer freedom—they amplify it.

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Jun 10, 20253 min
Orchestrating Non-Kubernetes Resources with Syntasso Kratix Enterprise
We built Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) to support the orchestration of any platform resource—Kubernetes-native or not—with automation, governance, and scale in mind.

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May 27, 20254 min
Syntasso at PlatEngDay London: Presentation Recap
Check out the PlatEngDay London talks that included the Syntasso team. We cover platform as a product, banking platforms, product thinking, and platform adoption

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May 9, 20254 min
Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects (KubeCon Talk Recap)
In my recent talk at KubeCon EU, I aimed to share insights into the connection between software architecture and platform architecture

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May 6, 20253 min
Building Real-World Platforms: Insights from Abby Bangser and Cory O’Daniel
Abby Bangser, Founding Principal Engineer at Syntasso, sat down with Cory O’Daniel, CEO and co-founder of Massdriver, and delved into the nuances of building effective internal platforms. Drawing from real-world implementations, Abby explored how platform teams can strike the right balance between standardisation, flexibility, and service-oriented thinking.

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