James Gough

Thirteen-year-old Will Tuttle, trapped in a sterile bubble, suffering from mysterious allergies no doctor can explain, encounters enchants, a secret society of half-humans that have lived among mankind for generations. Their existence is history's best-kept secret. But why?

Cloak

Daniel Bryant

Matthew Auburn

Most organizations with a web presence build and operate APIs; the doorway for customers to interact with the company's services. Designing, building, and managing these critical programs affect everyone in the organization, from engineers and product owners to C-suite executives. But the real challenge for developers and solution architects is creating an API platform from the ground up. With this practical book, you'll learn strategies for building and testing REST APIs that use API gateways to combine offerings at the microservice level. Authors James Gough, Daniel Bryant, and Matthew Auburn demonstrate how simple additions to this infrastructure can help engineers and organizations migrate to the cloud; and open the opportunity to connect internal services using technologies like a service mesh. Learn API fundamentals and architectural patterns for building an API platform Explore evolving trends such as asynchronous and streaming APIs Help drive your API program by performing an informed architectural role Build and configure key components of an API platform Deploy gateways and service meshes based on case studies Understand core security and vulnerabilities in API architecture Secure data and services using OAuth 2.0, TLS, and web application firewalls.

Mastering API Architecture

Chris Newland

Benjamin J. Evans

Practical Techniques for Improving JVM Application Performance

Optimizing Java

Benjamin J Evans

Performance tuning is an experimental science, but that doesn’t mean engineers should resort to guesswork and folklore to get the job done. Yet that’s often the case. With this practical book, intermediate to advanced Java technologists working with complex technology stacks will learn how to tune Java applications for performance using a quantitative, verifiable approach. Most resources on performance tend to discuss the theory and internals of Java virtual machines, but this book focuses on the practicalities of performance tuning by examining a wide range of aspects. There are no simple recipes, tips and tricks, or algorithms to learn. Performance tuning is a process of defining and determining desired outcomes. And it requires diligence. Learn how Java principles and technology make the best use of modern hardware and operating systems Explore several performance tests and common anti-patterns that can vex your team Understand the pitfalls of measuring Java performance numbers and the drawbacks of microbenchmarking Dive into JVM garbage collection logging, monitoring, tuning, and tools Explore JIT compilation and Java language performance techniques Learn performance aspects of the Java Collections API and get an overview of Java concurrency

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