The document discusses breaking a monolithic application into microservices using a service-oriented architecture approach at a life sciences startup. It summarizes that the company borrowed OpenAPI specifications for API documentation, Bunyan and CloudWatch for logging, Terraform for infrastructure, Dredd for testing, and Elastic Beanstalk or ECS for deployment. The approach established a 1:1 mapping between services, API controllers, log groups, Terraform modules, code repositories, and containers.