Microservices Platforms - part 2: Service foundation platform
This is the second in a series of articles based on my QCon San Francisco 2025 talk Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns. The articles in the series are:
- Microservices Platforms - part 1: Overview
- Microservices Platforms - part 2: Service foundation platform
- Microservices Platforms - part 3: Security platform
- Microservices Platforms - part 4: Infrastructure services platform
- Microservices Platforms - part 5: Observability platform
This article discusses the Service Foundation platform, which simplifies the creation and maintenance of microservices.

Let’s begin by looking at the problem that this platform solves.