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
• Microservices Platforms - part 7: Deployment platform

This article describes the Build platform, which provides the infrastructure and templates for the deployment pipelines that build and test the application’s services. Together with the Deployment platform, it defines the path that changes take from laptop to production.