This is just a 40 minute lecture, but you might find the ideas inside helpful.<p>It talks about anti-patterns that lead to the construction of a &quot;distributed monolith&quot; and how to avoid them.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microservices.com&#x2F;ben-christensen-do-not-build-a-distributed-monolith" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microservices.com&#x2F;ben-christensen-do-not-build-a-...</a>