1. The document provides a recipe for breaking apart a monolithic software system into microservices without overloading development teams. 2. The recipe involves instrumenting the monolith to understand data flows, aligning team boundaries with natural segments of the code, and splitting the system into independent services one segment at a time. 3. The goal is to reduce cognitive load on development teams by separating codebases, deployments, and responsibilities into independent subsystems that match team capabilities and domains of expertise.