Morgan Bruce

Paulo A. Pereira

Summary Microservices in Action is a practical book about building and deploying microservice-based applications. Written for developers and architects with a solid grasp of service-oriented development, it tackles the challenge of putting microservices into production. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Invest your time in designing great applications, improving infrastructure, and making the most out of your dev teams. Microservices are easier to write, scale, and maintain than traditional enterprise applications because they're built as a system of independent components. Master a few important new patterns and processes, and you'll be ready to develop, deploy, and run production-quality microservices. About the Book Microservices in Action teaches you how to write and maintain microservice-based applications. Created with day-to-day development in mind, this informative guide immerses you in real-world use cases from design to deployment. You'll discover how microservices enable an efficient continuous delivery pipeline, and explore examples using Kubernetes, Docker, and Google Container Engine. What's inside An overview of microservice architecture Building a delivery pipeline Best practices for designing multi-service transactions and queries Deploying with containers Monitoring your microservices About the Reader Written for intermediate developers familiar with enterprise architecture and cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. About the Author Morgan Bruce and Paulo A. Pereira are experienced engineering leaders. They work daily with microservices in a production environment, using the techniques detailed in this book. Table of Contents PART 1 - The lay of the land Designing and running microservices Microservices at SimpleBank PART 2 - Design Architecture of a microservice application Designing new features Transactions and queries in microservices Designing reliable services Building a reusable microservice framework PART 3 - Deployment Deploying microservices Deployment with containers and schedulers Building a delivery pipeline for microservices PART 4 - Observability and ownership Building a monitoring system Using logs and traces to understand behavior Building microservice teams

Microservices in Action

Alexei and Tristan have a secret life as brothers. They are also angels trying to live a life on Earth as ordinary children, and are perhaps the only angels attempting such a life. With each of them having already survived an attempt on their life, and amidst their need for secrecy, events are now coming into place for the biggest challenge they have ever faced. The fulfilment of a prophecy carved in stone tells of righting the wrongs of a distant past. The strange dreams that have given them access to even more knowledge of the past have not only shown them the horrors of those events, but also a way to enact the prophecy. But in doing so, both of them will be exposed to unexpected mortal danger.

Alexei, Accidental Angel – Book 6

Crowns

Alexei has a secret. He is an angel who has decided to remain on Earth to live life as an eleven-year-old child, after completing his “mission,” He believes he is the only angel attempting to live as a human and, as a result, must constantly hide his wings and other angel abilities. Having survived an attempt on his life by an evil angel after helping his human family, Alexei is about to have unexpected company arrive in the form of a brother boy-angel. The only problem is that for this to happen, a tragic event must also take place. An event about which Alexei has been sworn to absolute secrecy, even though it will most likely result in hurting someone rather close to his heart. As a further complication, a link to the past will unexpectedly cause him and his new angel brother to also be in considerable danger.

Brothers

Revelation is the fifth book in Morgan Bruce’s seven-part “Accidental Angel” series. Alexei and Tristan have a secret. They are brothers who are also angels trying to live a life on Earth as ordinary children. They have wings and can fly, teleport, and be invisible, and they believe they are the only angels attempting such an undertaking. Amidst their need for secrecy, they have already survived an attempt on their lives by a mad photographer, and the evil intentions of a turned angel. Now it seems they are being readied for a new mission to right the wrongs of a distant past, even though they don’t yet understand how they will go about this new quest. As a further complication, the discovery of an ancient chalice starts to give them unnerving dreams, designed to provide them with knowledge of past events that relate to the future. But this knowledge also exposes them to considerable danger from both human and angelic realms. In all of this, they find an unexpected future ally in a very sick boy in a hospital on the far side of the world.

Alexei, Accidental Angel – Book 5

Revelation

Eleven-year-old Vasya Andrejevich Gergiev was abandoned by his mother and left at a Polish orphanage. Tomek Markovic adopts the boy and the two move to Prague. But Markovic is not what he seems. He is a pedophile and part of an organization that supplies children to wealthy clients in Europe. Vasya undergoes the horrendous transformation of becoming a child prostitute, suffering abuse from clients and Markovic himself. Yuri Seminkov, an undercover police officer, infiltrates the organization, acting as an accountant. Seminkov arranges the purchase and sale of the children while obtaining evidence to dismantle the prostitution ring and put its monsters behind bars. Witness to - and powerless to stop - the children s training sessions, Seminkov arranges to have Vasya stay in his room. Pretending to have the same sick appetites as the men he works for, Seminkov is able to offer the boy small respites from his living hell. Vasya approaches a man in the streets of Prague, as he s trained to do. Philip Page, a reputable businessman decides to take the boy back to his hotel and to his wife, Jennifer, in order to provide a means of escape for Vasya. The couple smuggle Vasya out of Prague, but Markovic is not about to give up his prized possession easily. As Philip and Jennifer attempt to give Vasya a normal life, his captors will track their every move. As this cat and mouse game plays itself out, everyone will discover a dark secret that threatens to destroy them all. Morgan Bruce is an author, musician and educator.

Prague an Unforgettable Tale of Betrayal and Redemption

Eleven-year-old Vasya Gergiev suffers at the hands of monsters both in the house where he is held prisoner and on the streets of Prague. Taken from a Polish orphanage by Tomek Markovic, a minor player in a major child prostitution operation across Europe, Vasya undergoes the physical and mental anguish of sexual abuse. Undercover police officer Yuri Seminkov has managed to infiltrate the child smuggling organization headed by Markovic, his task being to arrange the purchase and sale of ‘merchandise’ that Markovic procures from orphanages. But until he can obtain enough evidence to put Markovic behind bars – or worse – Seminkov is powerless to aid the children that are forced into submission training sessions for Markovic’s clients. Vasya’s life is altered when he encounters a couple who, for their own reasons as well as his, decide to help him escape the brutality of his captor. But Tomek has other plans in store for the runaway, and it is up to Yuri to make sure Vasya will no longer fall victim to Tomek, his clients or anyone else.

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