I'm the article author, and it's great to hear your feedback! I've published a couple of other articles that may help with the topic of microservices:

https://opencredo.com/javaone-building-a-microservice-develo...

https://opencredo.com/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-microservices...

I'm also looking for more suggestions of how people will want to use Hoverfly with Java projects, and so please do give me a shout via twitter @danielbryantuk if you have any ideas!