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Top 10 Platform Engineering Takeaways from PlatEngDay & KubeCon London 2025
Platform Engineering was the hottest topic in the room at KubeCon, even edging out AI from my perspective! Here are my top 10 observations
Daniel Bryant
1 hour ago5 min read
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Building Scalable Internal Developer Platforms (Webinar recap)
In our first webinar of 2025, Daniel Bryant was joined by Abby Bangser and Jake Klein to explore the topic "Building Scalable Internal Devel
Ntongha Ekot
Mar 283 min read
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Platform Building Antipatterns: Slow, Low, and Just for Show
Recognising these antipatterns is essential to building platforms that empower devs, ops, and, critically, everyone else in your org.
Daniel Bryant
Mar 47 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 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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The Future of Platforms: The Invisible Glue Between Backstage and Terraform (Webinar Recap)
A webinar summary of “The Future of Platforms: The Invisible Glue Between Backstage and Terraform” with Abby Bangser and Daniel Bryant
Daniel Bryant
Oct 2, 20246 min read
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Fast Flow Conf 2024: Shaping the Future of Platforms and Teams
Our summary of Fast Flow Conf 2024! Topics covered: fast value delivery to customers, the need for APIs, continuous stewardship, and more!
Daniel Bryant
Sep 18, 20243 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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Five Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Platform-as-a-Product
Colin Humphreys shares five key lessons for creating a successful platform-as-a-product from 20 years of working in platform engineering
Colin Humphreys
Sep 5, 20248 min read
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Automating Platform Abstractions: The Power of the Promise API
This X thread about platform automation and abstraction from the ever-insightful Kelsey Hightower has been living in my head rent-free for t
Daniel Bryant
May 24, 20242 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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Building your Platform, your Way with Crossplane and Kratix
In this blog we’ll discuss how Syntasso is making it simple to build custom platforms using OSS projects Kratix and Crossplane. We will...
Christopher Hedley
Dec 9, 20227 min read
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