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Introducing Upgrade Orchestration: Safe Fleet Operations for Enterprise Platforms
Today, we're introducing Upgrade Orchestration in the Syntasso Kratix Enterprise Platform Manager: a new capability that gives platform teams precise, declarative control over how platform changes are rolled out across an entire fleet.


Walking Skeletons, Not Prototypes: Rethinking What a Platform POV Should Prove
Upgrades felt too big for our customer's SKE POV. That's probably not unusual.
However, the whole point of a good POV is to surface real concerns early, before the decision is made. Learn more about our platform orchestrator POV process.


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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Building Syntasso's AI-Powered "Daylight" Factory
See how Syntasso uses AI agents and agentic software development to accelerate engineering, improve delivery, and build our “daylight factory.”

Derik Evangelista
2 hours ago7 min read


Watch SKE Lift Turn Existing AWS Infrastructure Into a Platform
See SKE Lift in action as it discovers patterns in existing infrastructure and turns them into reusable, governed platform capabilities with Kratix.

Daniel Bryant
24 hours ago4 min read


Introducing SKE Lift: Discover the Platform Hidden in Your Existing Infrastructure
Discover SKE Lift, a new Syntasso capability that turns your existing infrastructure into standardised, reusable and governed platform capabilities.

Daniel Bryant
Sep 83 min read


Not Everything Should Be Level 4 AI
Some work needs a human's full attention and some doesn't. The trick isn't how much AI you use, it's knowing which is which, and who's going to read it.
Abby Bangser
Sep 38 min read


What Is Infrastructure Orchestration? A Clear Definition for Platform Teams
Infrastructure orchestration is one of three layers a platform needs. Here's what it actually means and how it fits with platform orchestration.

Daniel Bryant
Sep 25 min read


AI Agent Guardrails Don't Work. Safer Platforms Do.
AI agents are powerful because they're unpredictable, which is exactly why guardrails alone can't make them safe in production. Platform orchestration that only executes safe commands, not more guardrails, is what actually protects your infrastructure.
Abby Bangser
Aug 269 min read


Top Platform Orchestration Tools for 2026
A practical comparison of Kratix, KubeVela, KusionStack, and Humanitec, and how to tell a platform orchestrator from an application orchestrator

Daniel Bryant
Aug 246 min read


The Agent Harness: A Platform Deliverable, Not a Workstation
The agent harness shouldn't be assembled per team from loose configs. Here's why platform teams should deliver it as a versioned, catalogued capability.
Abby Bangser
Aug 145 min read


AI Agents' Real Problem Is Platform Orchestration, Not the Model
Why AI rollouts stall isn't the model; it's platform orchestration. See how enterprises govern AI agents at scale without slowing delivery down.
Abby Bangser
Aug 135 min read


The Kubernetes Noisy Neighbour Problem Is Actually a Permissions Problem
Giving every team direct Kubernetes API access to build custom controllers creates a noisy neighbour problem. Here's the abstraction that avoids it.
Abby Bangser
Aug 105 min read


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