According to the Gartner hype cycle: By 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will establish platform engineering teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery — up from 45% in 2022.

In many organizations, platform teams struggle to keep up with the demands of developers. The proliferation of microservices and the cloud-native landscape has introduced complexities in maintaining consistency, compliance, and automation. Traditional platforms can be rigid and require significant customization to adapt to new development practices and cloud-native architectures.

In our conversation with Daniel, we’ll explore innovative strategies to tackle these challenges using Kratix, an open-source project and framework. Kratix offers a Kubernetes-native, flexible approach that enables platform engineering teams to define workflows and resources, automating cloud infrastructure and services provisioning. This “platform-as-code” model seamlessly scales with organizational demands, making it a powerful solution for modern platform engineering needs. As a CNCF sandbox project, Kratix is backed by an active community of contributors and users. This support ensures that the framework is constantly evolving to meet the needs of platform teams across various industries. In short, by adopting Kratix, platform teams can better serve their developers, accelerate delivery cycles, and achieve a higher level of efficiency and scalability.

▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 Meet our Guest 👋 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
Platform Engineer and Head of Product Marketing @ Syntasso
👋 https://x.com/danielbryantuk 👋

Daniel Bryant is the Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso. His technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms, and microservice implementations. Daniel is a long-time coder, platform engineer, and Java Champion, and he contributes to several open-source projects. He also writes for InfoQ, O’Reilly, and The New Stack, and regularly presents at international conferences such as KubeCon, QCon, and JavaOne. In his copious amounts of free time, he enjoys running, reading, and traveling.

▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔗 About Kratix 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
is an open-source framework for building platforms
🔗 https://www.kratix.io/
🔗 https://docs.kratix.io/
⭐️ https://github.com/syntasso/kratix
🔔   / kratixio  

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▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔗 About KCD UK 2024 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
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▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔗 About QCon by InfoQ 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
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🎧 Podcast: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/
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▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⏱️ Chapters ⏱️ ▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Agenda
1:00 Guest Intro
2:00 Welcoming Daniel 👋
2:31 Platform Engineering: New trending term and business challenges
4:36 Syntasso Donated Platform Engineering Maturity Model to CNCF
5:55 Need for Kratix Open Source project and When to use it?
11:00 Summarizing Kratix use cases and benefits!!!
12:39 What is a platform orchestrator?
16:17 Push towards Reconciliation & self-healing capabilities in the platform
17:33 For consistent application Infra, what could be the Platform Engineering Strategy?
20:30 What is Application Choreography & Infrastructure Composition?
23:30 Flow of KCD UK 2024?
27:00 Call KCD UK as Mini KubeCon?
28:20 KubeCon Salt Lake and Platform Engineering Day 2024?
30:32 Platform Engineering for Sofware Engineers?
31:25 QCon by InfoQ what is it? who is the Intended audience?
34:31 Big Thanks to Daniel for showing up
35:18 Stay Caffeinative ☕️