Books to go deeper

The broad, practical overview: boundaries, communication, deployment, testing and the organisational side.

Covers: API Gateway, Backend for Frontend, Health Check API, Externalized Configuration

How to migrate step by step instead of rewriting, including splitting the database.

Covers: Strangler Fig, Database per Service, Shared Database, Change Data Capture

A pattern-by-pattern treatment with worked examples of sagas, the outbox, CQRS and event sourcing.

Covers: Saga, Transactional Outbox, CQRS, Event Sourcing, API Composition, Decompose by Business Capability

The foundations under the data patterns: replication, partitioning, consistency, logs and streams.

Covers: Change Data Capture, Event Sourcing, Idempotent Consumer

Where circuit breakers and bulkheads come from, told through real production failures.

Covers: Circuit Breaker, Bulkhead, Timeout, Retry with Backoff and Jitter, Rate Limiting

A readable route into subdomains and bounded contexts, the basis for drawing service boundaries.

Covers: Decompose by Subdomain, Decompose by Business Capability

The original book on bounded contexts and modelling a business domain.

Covers: Decompose by Subdomain

The classic catalogue of messaging patterns, from channels and routers to dead letter channels.

Covers: Asynchronous Messaging, Dead Letter Queue, Idempotent Consumer, Asynchronous Request-Reply

The trade-offs of splitting data and coordinating work across services, including saga styles.

Covers: Saga, Database per Service, Shared Database, Self-Contained Service

How to understand distributed systems in production with structured events and tracing.

Covers: Distributed Tracing, Log Aggregation, Application Metrics

How Google runs production services: monitoring, overload handling, cascading failures and deadlines.

Covers: Application Metrics, Health Check API, Timeout, Rate Limiting