BOOK: Continuous Delivery Handbook: Non Programmer’s Guide to DevOps, Microservices and Kubernetes (Stephen Fleming)

Amazon.com: Continuous Delivery Handbook : Non Programmer’s Guide to DevOps, Microservices and Kubernetes eBook: Stephen Fleming: Kindle Store

Quoting;

"(...) after going through this guide you would be able to appreciate Continuous Delivery through DevOps, Microservices and other related concepts like Kanban, Scrum, Agile, SOA, Monolith Architecture, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes etc.

-      This guide will clarify your conceptual queries with case studies, examples and diagrams.

-      You would also get to know about the leaders in DevOps and Microservices adoption and impact it had on the overall agility and hyper-growth of the adopters. This book covers the complete lifecycle for your understanding like Integrating, Testing, Deploying DevOps and Microservices architecture and the Security concerns while deploying it.

-      I am confident that after going through the book you would be able to navigate the discussion with any stakeholder and take your agenda ahead as per your role. Additionally, if you are new to the industry, and looking for an application development job, this book will help you to prepare with all the relevant information and understanding of the topic.

-      So, as Charles Darwin Said “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, or the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Be adaptive to the changes in the software Development Industry and ride ahead with Continuous Delivery."

BOOK: Microservices Patterns (MEAP)

Out during 2017, you can check right now the free chapter (follow the link):
https://www.manning.com/books/microservice-patterns

Quoting:
"The monolithic architecture works well for small, simple applications. However, successful applications have a habit of growing. Eventually the development team ends up in what is known as monolithic hell. All aspects of software development and deployment become painfully slow. The solution is to adopt the microservice architecture, which structures an application as a services, organized around business capabilities. This architecture accelerates software development and enables continuous delivery and deployment of complex software applications.

Microservice Patterns teaches enterprise developers and architects how to build applications with the microservice architecture. Rather than simply advocating for the use the microservice architecture, this clearly-written guide takes a balanced, pragmatic approach. You'll discover that the microservice architecture is not a silver bullet and has both benefits and drawbacks. Along the way, you'll learn a pattern language that will enable you to solve the issues that arise when using the microservice architecture. This book also teaches you how to refactor a monolithic application to a microservice architecture."

Monolithic (COTS) apps vs. Composable apps?

Once (partially) a promise of Service Oriented Applications (SOA) now we're talking of... Composable applications:
http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/How-composable-application-can-improve-software-development

Quoting:
"Composable applications is the idea that the functional blocks of an application can be decoupled from the complete applications. These individual component parts can then be more finely tuned to create a new application that is ideologically, if not also functionally,  greater than the sum of its parts."