Enabling Microservice Success

Appendix B. Recommended Reading

I’ve covered a lot of material in this book, but that involves a focus on breadth more than depth. If you want to dig deeper into some of these areas, here are my recommendations of the books and articles I keep returning to.

Part I: Context

Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, by Sam Newman (O’Reilly, 2021)

A comprehensive and practical guide to building microservices, it’s a constant reference. We cover the same topic from slightly different angles but with very little disagreement!

Part II: Organizational Structure and Culture

Accelerate, by Nicole Kim, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim (IT Revolution, 2018)

Builds on the State of DevOps reports to show how technology organizations can make changes, based on the ideas of DevOps, that will have a positive impact on the businesses they are part of. Clear, research-backed, and it’s pretty short and to the point too.

Team Topologies, by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais (IT Revolution, 2019)

Another book, like Accelerate, that is focused on the value that a technology organization can bring to the business, through a focus on fast flow of value and effective teams. Provided me with ways of talking about the different types of teams I had already started to see in my organization.

CNCF Platforms White Paper, CNCF Platforms Working Group

I was delighted to read this recently, because it succinctly explains why you need internal platforms, built with a product outlook.

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