Thinnest Viable Platform examples

Examples of a Thinnest Viable Platform (TVP) as defined in the book Team Topologies.

A TVP is a careful balance between keeping the platform small and ensuring that the platform is helping to accelerate and simplify software delivery for teams building on the platform. (p.101, Team Topologies)

This can be rephrased as:

A TVP is the smallest set of APIs, documentation, and tools needed to accelerate the teams developing modern software services and systems.

This material is based on some of the ideas in the book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton and Manuel Pais @manupaisable.

See teamtopologies.com for more details about Team Topolologies.

Copyright © 2018-2020 Team Topologies - Licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0

Canonical example of TVP

The ABC Corp example is perhaps the simplest infrastructure platform imaginable: just a list of cloud services and some default configuration.

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ABC Corp cloud platform

We use the Serverless Framework to simplify access to AWS serverless services. Use these AWS services via Serverless to build apps for ABC Corp:

• AWS DynamoDB
• AWS Lambda
• AWS S3
• AWS SQS

Use these events to trigger Lambda function execution:

• Application Load Balancer
• DynamoDB
• HTTP API
• S3
• Schedule
• SQS

Use these services to monitor Lambda function execution:

• AWS CloudWatch

Use our credentials setup tool, credible, to set up your credentials for the Serverless framework, including all AWS IAM roles and access keys:

• [Link to credible tool]

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Thinnest Viable Platform (TVP) Example using a Data Platform

See Thinnest Viable Platform (TVP) Example using a Data Platform by @sbalnojan

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