[radicalbyte]

Before anyone even touches "microservices" they should be forced to read Domain-Driven Design. If you do not have a "Bounded Context" and are not splitting your "microservices" by that then you're doing it very wrong.

A lot of the benefits I've seen people using "microservices" to fix what are just horrible design issues in their framework / codebase of choice.

[matt-attack]

Is that a book? Would love a reference.

[andrenth]

Domain-driven design by Eric Evans is the usual reference. There are some other well-regarded books on the subject too, e.g. by Vernon Vaughn.