Microservices platforms: when team topologies meets microservices patterns - an introduction

team topologies   pattern language   microservices platforms   architecting  

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Team topologies and the microservice architecture have a synergistic relationship. When developing application at scale, the microservice architecture enables the numerous stream-aligned teams to work independently. And at the same, the team topologies improves the effectiveness of an organization that’s developing a large, complex application consisting of many microservices.

In particular, platform teams significantly reduce the workload of stream-aligned teams. Stream-aligned teams that develop services must apply various patterns from the microservice architecture pattern language. Implementing many of these patterns involves writing plumbing code and and dealing with the infrastructure.

By using platforms provided by the platform teams, the stream-aligned teams can focus on delivering business value. The following diagram shows five key platforms that are needed to support the development of microservices.

This article introduces these platforms and their relationship with the microservice architecture patterns. Later articles will provide more details about each platform. Let’s start by examining why implementing the patterns in the microservice architecture pattern language can be a burden.

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