SYNTASSO BLOG

Cloud Foundry wasn’t a theory, a proof of concept, or a fashionable idea that briefly caught on. It was a production platform used by hundreds of large enterprises to run real workloads, often in highly-regulated environments, at a global scale. More importantly, it proved something that many organisations still struggle to accept today: platforms, when built and operated well, can dramatically improve speed and safety at the same time.

Stéphane Di Cesare and Cat Morris’ talk at KubeCon EU 2025 in London tackles a challenge most platform teams recognise immediately: platform engineering creates enormous value, but it is often difficult to prove that value in a way the business understands. The reason is simple. Much of the work is invisible.

Cat Morris and Jake Klein’s KubeCon EU 2025 talk in London  is a practical walkthrough of what happens when a “simple” Kubernetes setup grows into a full platform estate, and an exploration of the challenges that working with multiple clusters brings. They frame the problem with a familiar story: platform complexity rarely appears overnight. It creeps in, one sensible decision at a time.

This update is full of the cool things we’ve been up to over the past year, from new features to our collaboration with customers. But before we dig into that, let's refresh ourselves on what our 2025 strategy was and whether we followed it

This year, we continued to engage with the community at major events, ship improvements to Kratix, and expand the conversation around platform engineering, all while exploring what matters most to platform builders. As 2025 draws to a close, here are our thoughts as to why platform engineering has firmly moved into its next phase.