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.

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.

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.

At KubeCon, Nitish Malhotra from Veeam Software and Cat Morris from Syntasso explored how to avoid the day 2 platform hangover

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Learn more about the platform engineering portals and pipelines antipatterns, and understand why platform orchestration is essential

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

A good internal platform is one that delivers speed, safety, efficiency, and scalability to meet the evolving needs of software teams.

For many years, my peers and I have been discussing the concept of building “golden paths” for developers. These golden paths lead the...

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.

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.

Check out the PlatEngDay London talks that included the Syntasso team. We cover platform as a product, banking platforms, product thinking, and platform adoption

In my recent talk at KubeCon EU, I aimed to share insights into the connection between software architecture and platform architecture

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.

At KubeCon, Phill Morton and Abby Bangser delivered a workshop that championed the principle that “working code wins.” Drawing on the experience at The Access Group (TAG), the UK’s largest software business headquartered in the UK, Phill and Abby showcased how internal platforms, particularly those powered by Kratix and Kubernetes, can accelerate innovation and enable scalable developer self-service.

Platform Engineering was the hottest topic in the room at KubeCon, even edging out AI from my perspective! Here are my top 10 observations

Syntasso made a series of announcements at KubeCon EU 2025, including a Google Cloud partnership, increasing SKE adoption, and new features.