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This book is great for those coming from Monolithic architectures (pretty much everyone, originally) and baby-stepping through the reasons why you may want to move services to a more micro level. It is definitely written from a pro-microservices standpoint, but refrains from being preachy.

Using key-value stores are all about consistency (as is any database actually, but simple databases are far less forgiving of inconsistencies). This book establishes reasonable, practiced patterns that will help you from making simple mistakes in your data modeling journey.