Books like Bootstrapping Microservices, Second Edition by Ashley Davis

An authoritative guide that explains how to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable data‑intensive systems, covering data models, storage engines, distributed systems, and batch and stream processing.

The monolithic architecture works well for small, simple applications. However, successful applications have a habit of growing. Eventually the development team ends up in what is known as monolithic hell. All aspects of software development and deployment become painfully slow. The solution is to adopt the microservice architecture, which structures an application as a services, organized around business capabilities. This architecture accelerates software development and enables continuous delivery and deployment of complex software applications. Microservice Patterns teaches enterprise developers and architects how to build applications with the microservice architecture. Rather than simply advocating for the use the microservice architecture, this clearly-written guide takes a balanced, pragmatic approach. You'll discover that the microservice architecture is not a silver bullet and has both benefits and drawbacks. Along the way, you'll learn a pattern language that will enable you to solve the issues that arise when using the microservice architecture. This book also teaches you how to refactor a monolithic application to a microservice architecture.

This paper discusses applying microservices to web services, illustrating the concept with a case study that decomposes the Anna University result webpage into independent, lightweight services.