Anytime these discussions come up I always wonder if there are any great examples in the form of a deep technical analysis of microservice architecture?

I've built things that I've called microservices, but generally have failed to do a complete job or always left with something that feels more like a monolith with a few bits broken out to match scaling patterns.

I know there are talks and papers by Netflix for example, but if anybody knows if any smaller scale, easier to grok talks or papers that go into common pitfalls and solve them for real (vs giving a handwavey solution that sounds good but isn't concrete) I'd love to check it out.