The FREE Primer
The Primer gives a short overview of Microservices. It is free and it is a great ressource to get started with Microservices.
How to Get It
You can get the eBook for free from Leanpub. You get a PDF, ePub and Mobi (Kindle). There is no DRM (digital rights management).
At Amazon the Kindle eBook is not free but quite cheap. Here are the links to the Amazon web sites:
There is also a printed version:
Source
The Primer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. The source is available at GitHub.
Content
What are Microservices?
- Size of Microservies
- Microservices, Domain-driven Design and Bounded Context
- Conway’s Law and the impact on the Organization
Why Microservices?
- Scaling Agility
- Migrating Legacy Applications
- Sustainable development
- Robustness
- Continuous Delivery
- Independent scalability
- Technology freedom
In the last chapter the primer gives hints how to start with Microservices.
German Version
The book is a translation into English. The German version is Microservices Überblick.