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Microservices Platforms - part 5: Observability platform

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The MEAP for Microservices Patterns 2nd edition is now available

This is the fifth 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:

This article describes the Observability platform, which simplifies the development of observable microservices - services whose behavior and usage can be understood by their teams. It explains how a platform group provides shared observability capabilities that enable service teams to focus on their core domain responsibilities.

Microservices platform architecture diagram with the Observability component highlighted, showing its relationship to the Service, Service Foundation, Build, Security, Deployment, and Infrastructure Services components

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