Thanks! I agree that just building something is a great way to get familiar with this stuff. I'm not looking for someone to say "this is how you build SOA" (whi

Thanks! I agree that just building something is a great way to get familiar with this stuff. I'm not looking for someone to say "this is how you build SOA" (which is probably why I found the rails book lacking) but rather "here is some complex challenge which I solved in this way, and here are the things we would have done differently in a re-write". Getting started with microservices is easy - there's probably more code to write in the deployment / testing / monitoring / logging plumbing than there is in your entire first service - but I'm sure there are subtle patterns that others have found that'd be good to know.