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.