Microservices Platforms - part 6: Build platform

This is the sixth article in a series 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
• Microservices Platforms - part 6: Build platform

This article describes the Build platform, which together with the Deployment platform, defines the path that changes take from laptop to production.