[erikcw]

Does anyone know of a good resource for learning microservices best practices? We're at a stage at my company where it makes sense to consider the transition from a monolith -- but would love to do the right homework first to avoid some of the pitfalls.

[vkjv]

I highly recommend reading Martin Fowler.

http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html

[austingunter]

We put together a number of talks on microservices.com/talks that you can check out.

This one from Uber about their scaling is a good place to start: https://www.microservices.com/talks/scaling-uber-from-1-to-1...

And this one from Ben Christensen of Netflix and Facebook talks about some of the pitfalls https://www.microservices.com/talks/dont-build-a-distributed...

[berlam]

If you prefer books, than I can recommend "Building Microservices" from Sam Newman [1]. You get some basic information and pitfalls you should avoid when building microservices.

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033158.do