
Book: Learning Dapr: Building Distributed Cloud Native Applications (2020)
A great introduction to Dapr!
A great introduction to Dapr from two prominent members of the Dapr development team.
Ambassador, Sidecar, and Adapter Pattern
Deploy parts of the application as a separate process/container - sidecar and other related patterns
Offload everyday tasks for connectivity such as monitoring, routing, logging, and security (usually as a sidecar).
Ambassador Pattern

Book: Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith
The companion book for popular Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems book
Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith by Sam Newman is a companion book for Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems. Sam focuses on decomposing monoliths and greatly expands a few chapters from the original book.