their Identifying Services section, IBM also touches on these concepts: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248357.pdf • This talks about more general layering principals, but has a lot of rules of thumb that still apply: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/build-business-capabilities-apis-nial-darbey • Not directly about these concepts, but Jeff Coble's blog post is somewhat related and a good read: https://medium.com/@jeffcoble/from-product-to-platform-5d6857e55afb • My blog post (Microservices: Building things is easy, building the right thing is hard) also touches briefly on this: https://medium.com/box-tech-blog/microservices-building-things-is- easy-building-the-right-thing-is-hard-b88b6e2474c1 Layered Architecture Articles (continued…) Further Resources