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Microservices Patterns teaches you how to develop and deploy production-quality microservices-based applications. This invaluable set of design patterns builds on decades of distributed system experience, adding new patterns for writing services and composing them into systems that scale and perform reliably under real-world conditions. More than just a patterns catalog, this practical guide offers experience-driven advice to help you design, implement, test, and deploy your microservices-based application.

My name is Xal, and I live in the dims - a walled prison where my people are kept by our cruel masters until we are needed to fight once more. One member of every family must answer The Call, for our blood bears the magic of a demonic god and all the terrible power that brings. We march to war against the Fomori, an unstoppable army of giants and their behemoths. If we do not, then our families are put to death. The Hasrans use us as cannon fodder and worse. They used up my father, and he never came home. Die resisting. Die fighting.

The Ancient Ones are coming to consume our world, and only the bold investigators of Arkham Horror stand in their way in this chilling collection of eldritch novellas.

Enjoy 15 scintillating tales in this eclectic collection where characters seek honor, truth, retribution, and in one case, a place to sell 300-year-old Lavian brandy.

Chris Bledsoe, a deeply religious family man and successful business owner from North Carolina was on the verge of the unthinkable after losing everything in the 2007 financial crisis and suffering from a debilitating chronic disease. Fishing along the banks of the Cape Fear River with three co-workers and his teenage son, he walks away from the group and cries out to God in a desperate prayer for help. Suddenly, a UFO appears and saves his life and cures him of his illness.

History has always seemed pretty boring to Angus. Who cares about things that happened thousands of years ago? Totally pointless! That’s what Angus thinks until the day he accidentally falls into a shopping trolley and ends up travelling through time with Marge, the lady who runs the cheese counter at the local supermarket, and who is also FROM THE FUTURE. And so begins the most epic adventure of his life – exploring a market in Roman Britain, hanging out with Shakespeare, making new friends in Ancient Egypt.

Revolution threatens a longstanding peace.... Thirty years after the Syndicate Corporation saved Earth from climate-change extinction, SynCorp’s Five Factions rule the solar system with an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove. Food, entertainment, safety, security - SynCorp provides it all. In return, the Company requires complete loyalty and obedience to corporate law.

It is 1758, and the Seven Years War is at its height. The Duke of Cumberland’s Hanoverian army has been pushed back to the river Elbe while the French are using the medieval fortified city of Emden to resupply their army and to anchor its left flank.

For more than 200 years, the armies of the Emperor of Mankind fought to reconquer the galaxy - led by the superhuman primarchs, the Space Marine Legions brought countless worlds back under the rule of ancient Terra. Now Horus, once honoured Warmaster and favoured son of the Emperor, has been corrupted by the whispered promises of Chaos. At his command the Imperium is torn apart by a terrible and bloody civil war, the likes of which the galaxy has never seen.

Driven almost to the brink of self-destruction at Isstvan V, the Iron Hands now seek vengeance for the murder of their primarch Ferrus Manus. Gathering survivors from the Raven Guard and the Salamanders aboard any vessels capable of warp travel, these Shattered Legions wage a new campaign of annihilation against the traitor forces across the galaxy - a campaign masterminded by legendary warleader Shadrak Meduson.

Alex is a 36-year-old SAS Captain. Recently commissioned from the ranks, he is returning from a hostage-rescue mission in Sierra Leone when he finds himself summoned back to the UK. Someone, it seems, has been murdering MI5 officers. And murdering them in a particularly gruesome and horrific way. A hammer is involved, as is a skinning-knife. The security services, however, are more concerned with the why than the how.

1999. A bitterly cold morning in the Brecon Beacons, and the soldiers trying out for SAS Selection are preparing to face their toughest test yet. Overseeing the soldiers is John Porter: once a promising young Blade, now a broken man and a drunk, seeing out his days in the Regiment Training Wing.

I Wish I Was A LIttle BIt Taller is a podcast hosted by two childhood friends, who love everything NBA, but rarely see eye to eye. Join us for lots of laughs, a bit of banter, and a dash of jokes cracked at the others expense.

I Wish I Was A LIttle BIt Taller is a podcast hosted by two childhood friends, who love everything NBA, but rarely see eye to eye. Join us for lots of laughs, a bit of banter, and a dash of jokes cracked at the others expense.

I Wish I Was A LIttle BIt Taller is a podcast hosted by two childhood friends, who love everything NBA, but rarely see eye to eye. Join us for lots of laughs, a bit of banter, and a dash of jokes cracked at the others expense.

I Wish I Was A LIttle BIt Taller is a podcast hosted by two childhood friends, who love everything NBA, but rarely see eye to eye. Join us for lots of laughs, a bit of banter, and a dash of jokes cracked at the others expense.

I Wish I Was A LIttle BIt Taller is a podcast hosted by two childhood friends, who love everything NBA, but rarely see eye to eye. Join us for lots of laughs, a bit of banter, and a dash of jokes cracked at the others expense.

I Wish I Was A LIttle BIt Taller is a podcast hosted by two childhood friends, who love everything NBA, but rarely see eye to eye. Join us for lots of laughs, a bit of banter, and a dash of jokes cracked at the others expense.

I Wish I Was A LIttle BIt Taller is a podcast hosted by two childhood friends, who love everything NBA, but rarely see eye to eye. Join us for lots of laughs, a bit of banter, and a dash of jokes cracked at the others expense.

I Wish I Was A LIttle BIt Taller is a podcast hosted by two childhood friends, who love everything NBA, but rarely see eye to eye. Join us for lots of laughs, a bit of banter, and a dash of jokes cracked at the others expense.