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Kratix + Backstage: Upgrade Your Portal to a Platform
Organisations aiming for growth and efficiency require a fully automated internal developer platform, not just a centralised dashboard. If you’re aiming to improve developer productivity and ensure security and compliance, you should consider moving from an Internal Developer Portal to an Internal Developer Platform.
Joshua Adeyemi
3 days ago4 min read
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Taming the Complexity of Cloud-Native Development with Internal Developer Platforms
The limitations of monolithic architectures—such as inflexibility and challenges with scalability and agility—have led to the widespread...
Amarachi Iheanacho
Mar 274 min read
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The IDP Revolution: Why Self-Service is the Key to Developer Empowerment
Software development should be seamless. The longer Developers have to wait, the less they create and this is why we need IDPs
Ikpemosi Victoria Braimoh
Mar 144 min read
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Kratix for Database Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to Amazon RDS Deployment
As a platform engineer, your team launched a new application, and demand is growing rapidly. Thousands of users are signing up, so you...
Obusor Ezekiel Umesi
Mar 68 min read
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The Platform Engineering Playbook: Insights from Paula Kennedy
Leaders embarking on a platform engineering journey should start by asking: “What is the goal of our platform engineering effort?
Paula Kennedy
Feb 214 min read
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Scaling Platform Building: Balancing What is Unique to Your Org and Common Across Teams
Platform engineering focuses on creating internal platforms that align with your organisation's needs.
Abby Bangser
Feb 36 min read
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Three Trends to Watch in Platform Engineering for 2025
Platform engineering in 2025 will be shaped by composability, data-driven optimisation, and the transformative power of generative AI
Daniel Bryant
Jan 103 min read
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Platform Engineering Evolution: Trends and Future Impact on Software Delivery
In my recent talk at QCon San Francisco, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on the evolution of platform engineering.
Paula Kennedy
Dec 17, 20245 min read
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Building Resilient Internal Developer Platforms
A summary of my talk, "Engineering Resilience into the Foundations: Key Strategies for Building Robust Internal Development Platforms."
Daniel Bryant
Dec 11, 20243 min read
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Platform Orchestration and the Three Layers of Modern Platforms
Earlier in the month, I had the privilege of presenting two talks about platform orchestration at the JAX London event.
Daniel Bryant
Oct 16, 20242 min read
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Game on: Go Multiplayer Mode to Supercharge your Internal Platform
We often celebrate the individual platform engineering or DevOps hero or heroine who (purportedly) creates something ingenious alone, but...
Paula Kennedy
Oct 10, 20247 min read
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Turning Legacy to Leverage: Building Developer Platforms in Brownfield Environments
Five lessons for building successful brownfield developer platforms -- and how to avoid my previous mistakes!
Cat Morris
Sep 12, 20248 min read
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Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure
Learn more about platform orchestration, application choreography, and infrastructure composition.
Daniel Bryant
Feb 29, 20246 min read
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Syntasso Donates First Version of Platform Maturity Model to CNCF Working Group
The Syntasso team has a long history of open source and community engagement as well as being leaders within the platform engineering...
Abby Bangser
Apr 26, 20232 min read
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The 12 Platform Challenges - recap
Back in early December 2022, we set ourselves the challenge of putting together a series of blogs describing the top 12 Platform...
Paula Kennedy
Jan 6, 20232 min read
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Platform Challenge 12: Managing a Multi-Cloud Platform
I was on a team in 2017. An edict came from somewhere: we negotiated a rate with Google Cloud so you need to move from Amazon to Google....
Winna Bridgewater
Jan 5, 20233 min read
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Platform Challenge 11: Scaling the Platform Beyond a Single Kubernetes Cluster
So you've successfully migrated an application or team to a single Kubernetes cluster. Perhaps you're using a managed offering such as...
Jake Klein
Jan 4, 20233 min read
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Platform Challenge 10: Not All Services are on Kubernetes
One of the challenges of running a Platform is the underlying technology which is, oftentimes, itself a platform. The choice of the...
Derik Evangelista
Jan 3, 20232 min read
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Platform Challenge 9: Application Teams Need to Learn Platform Tools
In software there always seems to be more to do than time to do it. This is particularly true when it comes to often understaffed...
Abby Bangser
Jan 2, 20233 min read
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Platform Challenge 7: Maintaining Consistency Across Software Teams
Systems are all around us. They exist at incomprehensibly enormous scales, such as the complex global economy that we all operate within,...
Christopher Hedley
Dec 31, 20223 min read
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