Microservices Platforms - part 8: Getting started with platforms
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This is the eighth 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
- Microservices Platforms - part 8: Getting started with platforms
While creating the conference presentation, I came across a rather depressing article Why Up to 70% of Platform Engineering Teams Fail to Deliver Impact.
It describes how most platform teams fail:
Based on my experiences over the years, I am not surprised. In this article, I shall share a few thoughts about why platform engineering often fails and what can be done to increase the chances of success.
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