read a book
Read Building Microservices by Sam Newman

Required reading for us all at Headspring as we get more and more into distributed systems.

My current project involves some major application changes to prepare for a new microservice architecture but the client architect's plan is like a Swiss cheesecake: half-baked and full of holes. Good to read form an expert that my gut was right about it, and have some fundamentals to guide a different recommendation.