The document discusses the goals and principles of microservices architectures, including isolation, resilience, asynchronous APIs, immutable deployments, exposing only necessary functionality through APIs, domain-driven design, and eventual consistency. It also notes additional operational complexity compared to monolithic architectures in areas like service discovery, failure management, and versioning. The Lagom framework is presented as providing tools that aim to help achieve these goals, such as event sourcing, service and persistence APIs, and development and production environments.