Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns - part 1
This is the first 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 describes what platforms are, why they are essential for fast flow, and introduces the six essential platforms that stream-aligned service teams need to develop microservices effectively.
The following diagrams shows the six platforms that I will describe in this series of articles.
To understand why platforms matter - and why they are worth investing in - we first need to understand the underlying goal they serve: fast flow. The next section defines fast flow and explains why it matters.