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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
Apr 175 min read
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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
Apr 154 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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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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Syntasso KubeCon NA + PlatEngDay Talk Recordings
Watch the Syntasso team in action in the KubeCon NA and PlatEngDay talk recordings!

Daniel Bryant
Nov 29, 20244 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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Why Implement "Progressive Disclosure" in your Internal Developer Platform and Portal?
Have you considered using "progressive disclosure" within your internal developer platform (IDP) to help manage cognitive load?

Daniel Bryant
Jul 25, 20243 min read
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KubeCon EU Paris: The (Re)Emergence of Platform as a Product
The Syntasso team have finally unpacked our bags from an amazing KubeCon EU in Paris, and we’re keen to share our learnings!

Daniel Bryant
Apr 4, 20244 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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Kratix and Backstage: A Perfect Pair
Backstage and Kratix were designed to work perfectly together to turn your portal into a platform.
Christopher Hedley
Jan 17, 20233 min read
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