Hey all, author here! Please provide comments and feedback. Happy to answer questions and discuss this old thing called "microservices" and poke fun at the complexity of cloud and AWS.
There is a lot of interest on microservices from the research community; there are many open-source frameworks that enable you to write/deploy/operate microservice applications with different levels of abstraction. One thing that is missing in the open is (significant) example applications / benchmarks, across which we can compare the different frameworks in terms of ease of use, convenience, performance, etc. Can you give a description or samples of what people are doing in m3o.com?
I think most people are effectively doing some form of CRUD on the backend that's then consumed by web apps or mobile. In our case we've built out a number of example applications in https://github.com/micro/services.