SNL #15: KubeCon EU, Infra teams, AI platforms, and Empathy
- Daniel Bryant
- Jan 23
- 2 min read
Welcome to the January round-up of the essential platform engineering news. As we start the new year, we want to learn more about your top priority for your platform engineering efforts. Is it:
Finding time to explore new technologies?
Learning how to establish and lead platform teams?
Understanding how to build/buy/blend your way to creating a platform?
Let us know by getting in contact with us!
Articles
With the official KubeCon EU 2025 schedule announced this week, we’re super happy to announce that the Syntasso team will co-present five sessions!
Another excellent article from Kief Morris explores why an infrastructure management team is less effective than an infrastructure platform.
If a template-based upgrade in an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) fails, who’s to blame? Artem Lajko explores this interesting question.
Tech News
Payments processing platform Silverflow combined Soundcheck — Spotify’s scorecard plugin for Backstage — with in-office leaderboards to promote healthy team competition and healthier tech.
For the start of 2025, I explored three key trends that will shape the future of platform engineering in the coming year.
Three years ago, Reddit's infrastructure engineers team spent most of its time putting out fires. Here's how developing a platform abstraction streamlined operations and put them back in charge.
Presentations and Video
DevOps legend Patrick Debois explores the shared components of the AI stack: proxies, caching, testing, feedback collection, guardrails, etc., and the steps (and struggles) required to enable this across the whole of engineering.
In this talk Platform as a Product meetup talk, Cat Morris shared practical product management techniques you can use when building your platforms to close the Empathy Gap.
An IBM and Red Hat-themed talk by Grace Jansen & Maarten Vandeperre highlights key concepts of platform engineering.
Podcasts and Webinars
In this episode, Abi and Laura examine the 2024 DX Core 4 benchmarks and share insights from data from 500+ companies.
Throughout numerous conferences, experts have often proclaimed that choosing the right culture is paramount over selecting tools. In this episode, Darin and Viktor try to settle this debate.
In this latest episode of the FINOS podcast, Grizz Griswold interviews Chris Plank from NatWest Bank and Derik Evangelista from Syntasso.
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