Building your platform

To build a successful developer platform, you need three essential building blocks:

1. Patterns - Pre-built solutions to common infrastructure problems
2. Platform Components - A core collection of functional capabilities
3. Interfaces - How developers interact with your platform

How they work together

To achieve true developer self-service, you need all three building blocks. For example, when a developer needs to deploy a new Amazon ECS service:

• They have identified a common infrastructure need (pattern)
• They discover the relevant pattern through the catalog (platform component)
• They might use a Web UI (interface) to configure it
• The infrastructure pipeline (platform component) deploys it
• Policies (pattern) verify it meets your internal standards
• The registry (platform component) tracks the deployment

Next

Let's dig into the first building block: patterns.