Daniel Bryant

Beyond the Platform Façade: Escaping the Portals and Pipelines Trap Learn more about the platform engineering "portals and pipelines" antipatterns, and understand why platform orchestration is essential

Another much-requested post from the @syntasso.io team and me, "Beyond the Platform Façade: Escaping the Portals and Pipelines Trap" 🍿

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The Internal Platform Scorecard: Speed, Safety, Efficiency, and Scalability A good internal platform is one that delivers speed, safety, efficiency, and scalability to meet the evolving needs of software teams.

"Great internal platforms don’t emerge from ad-hoc automation or isolated tooling choices; they're built with intentionality around the core attributes that matter: speed, safety, efficiency, and scalability."

My latest @syntasso.io blog!

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Looking to #StayAhead in 2025? Dive deep into the critical trends shaping #SoftwareArchitecture!

🎧 Don’t miss out – watch the #InfoQ #podcast now: bit.ly/3S9Heql

⏱️ #timestamps included for easy navigation!

💪 Knowledge is power! #TrendsReport

Thanks for the feedback, Rob!

I recommend to take a look at @danielbryantuk.com excellent talk once it's up on YouTube, great resource for strategies for internal developer platforms with references to software architecture. Platform Orchestration is the natural next step!

Many thanks, Jessica! And thanks for coming along. It was great to see some friendly faces in the audience 😁

Platform Democracy: Rethinking Who Builds and Consumes Your Internal Platform Platform Democracy is a model where developers, security teams, SREs, and even external service providers collaborate seamlessly.

Catch up with our latest blog, "Platform Democracy: Rethinking Who Builds and Consumes Your Internal Platform"

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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.

My latest blog post: "Platform Building Antipatterns: Slow, Low, and Just for Show"

- Ticket Systems: Slow 🐌
- Raw Cloud/Kubernetes Access: Low(-level) ⚙️
- Templates-as-a-Service: Just for show 🕺

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Syntasso Wrapped: Reflecting on Platform Engineering in 2024 As we close the chapter on 2024, it's time to reflect on Syntasso's progress this year in platform engineering and with Kratix.

This is my last @syntasso.bsky.social blog post of the year! I've collected together our most popular content and summarised key learnings 📚

Happy New Year, everyone! 🥳

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Many thanks for the excellent write-up, @jkriggins.bsky.social!

YouTube video by Cloud Native Podcast Platform Engineering With Daniel Bryant | Ep 116

www.kratix.io is a platform orchestrator, that reduces technical sprawl and the team’s cognitive load by consistently applying business processes, policies, and workflows.

Listen tp @danielbryantuk.com #cloudnativefm - Ep 116
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Benedict Evans puts together a yearly slide deck looking broadly at the industry while diving in with specific numbers and a lot of charts (90 slides). It is always a gem. via
@benedictevans

This year is about AI (of course). It is super. ben-evans.com/presentations

Distributed Tracing Tool Jaeger Releases Version 2 with OpenTelemetry at the Core Version 2 of the Jaeger project, a leading open-source distributed tracing platform, has been released. This release contains a significant architectural transformation, as it brings Jaeger and its co...

Looking to catch up on the latest #Jaeger v2 release? @matts.net has you covered on @infoq.com!

"This release contains a significant architectural transformation, as it brings Jaeger and its components into the OpenTelemetry framework."

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Engineering Resilience into the Foundations: Key Strategies for Building Robust Internal Development Platforms In today's rapidly evolving technical landscape, the resilience of internal development platforms (IDPs) is paramount. This presentation draws on a seri…

Slides from my #TechRocks talk yesterday: "Engineering Resilience into the Foundations: Key Strategies for Building Robust Internal Development Platforms"

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Many thanks for sharing, Christophe!

« Speak to your customers ! » about #resilient #platformengineering by @danielbryantuk.com at #trsummit2024

Photo of Daniel Bryant during his talk in TechRocksSummit2024

How a good engineering platform, built with developers, Can improve software delivery lifecycle and bring resilience in our products.
Great talk by @danielbryantuk.com

Many thanks for the share, Titouan!

An internal developer portal. Something akin to Backstage, Port, or Cortex

KubeCon NA 2024 Key Takeaways: A Recap of Our Time in Salt Lake City Here are the Syntasso team's top takeaways from KubeCon NA 2024 in Salt Lake City!

ICYMI, I shared my #KubeCon + #PlatEngDay key takeaways on the @syntasso.bsky.social blog last week!

There were lots of talks about Kubernetes, now with added AI 🤖 😀

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KubeCon NA 2024 Key Takeaways: A Recap of Our Time in Salt Lake City Here are the Syntasso team's top takeaways from KubeCon NA 2024 in Salt Lake City!

I've just published my official #KubeConNA recap!

1/ Platform engineering has crossed the chasm
2/ AI was visible in the talks but less so at the booths
3/ Improving APIs, abstraction, and automation
4/ (Continued...)

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#KubeCon #PlatEngDay #PlatformEngineering

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New Bluesky handle, who dis? 😁

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Great talk about the past, present and future of platforms from @paulalkennedy.bsky.social at #QConSF

Platform as product FTW!

Great to hear from @danielbryantuk.bsky.social at #QConSF! Did you know that all @infoq.bsky.social content is crafted by software practitioners, not journalists? If you're passionate about software development, join our editorial community. Learn more: www.infoq.com/write-for-in...

Looking forward to hanging out in the Programming Languages and Paradigms #QConSF track today! And @paulakennedy.bsky.social is speaking, too!

A fascinating #QConSF insight into using CDC, DDD, Team Topologies, and more for legacy modernisation with a mainframe at National Grid

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Another great #QConSF architecture talk from the GitHub folks showing how they serve 400 million code completion requests a day with Copilot!

Lots of benefits for contributing to @infoq.bsky.social from @steefjan.bsky.social and Roland at #QConSF

Thanks for the shout-out! And I’m kinda wanting a new chair now, too 😂