The document outlines the preparation for a journey towards microservices using Wardley Maps and discusses key trends in the microservices architecture market, highlighting its projected growth and the importance of domain-driven design (DDD). It emphasizes concepts such as loose coupling, high cohesion, and service discovery, alongside mapping user needs and components to fulfill those needs using Wardley Maps' evolution and value chain approach. Additionally, it stresses the strategic and tactical design principles for organizing microservices while taking into account the problem space and solution space.