First a heads up, this is written by an employee of Thoughtworks. So expect the religious/consultant perspective.
It's a well written book as are all O'Reilly books. If you're like me you're trying to figure out what is Microservices as once again some new term has come out, built up a huge amount of hype and no one can agree what it is (I went through all this with SOA too).
I've read a few books on the subject and decided that Microservices is a range of either just SOA on one end and a "change the world" religious approach on the other end (you choose which end you want to believe it is). This book is about the religious approach (though it does mention that Microservices is a specific approach for SOA so tries to actually be both ends). So the religious approach means this book covers the design of services (using Domain-Driven Design), to reorganizing your software teams around services, to continuous integration, to continuous deployment, etc and a lot of stuff inbetween. So obviously this book has to be very high level as that's a lot of topics.
What it doesn't do (what every book I've read on this topic so far doesn't do) is it doesn't actually show and describe a Microservice in detail (and most importantly the decisions made in the design). So, extremely annoyingly, you can read this entire book and still have no idea what a Microservice is with no actual concrete example.
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