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Delve into the second edition to master serverless proficiency and explore new chapters on security techniques, multi-regional deployment, and optimizing observability.Key FeaturesGain insights from a seasoned CTO on best practices for designing enterprise-grade software systemsDeepen your understanding of system reliability, maintainability, observability, and scalability with real-world examplesElevate your skills with software design patterns and architectural concepts, including securing in-depth and running in multiple regions.Book DescriptionOrganizations undergoing digital transformation rely on IT professionals to design systems to keep up with the rate of change while maintaining stability. With this edition, enriched with more real-world examples, you'll be perfectly equipped to architect the future for unparalleled innovation.This book guides through the architectural patterns that power enterprise-grade software systems while exploring key architectural elements (such as events-driven microservices, and micro frontends) and learning how to implement anti-fragile systems.First, you'll divide up a system and define boundaries so that your teams can work autonomously and accelerate innovation. You'll cover the low-level event and data patterns that support the entire architecture while getting up and running with the different autonomous service design patterns.This edition is tailored with several new topics on security, observability, and multi-regional deployment. It focuses on best practices for security, reliability, testability, observability, and performance. You'll be exploring the methodologies of continuous experimentation, deployment, and delivery before delving into some final thoughts on how to start making progress.By the end of this book, you'll be able to architect your own event-driven, serverless systems that are ready to adapt and change.What you will learnExplore architectural patterns to create anti-fragile systems.Focus on DevSecOps practices that empower self-sufficient, full-stack teamsApply microservices principles to the frontendDiscover how SOLID principles apply to software and database architectureGain practical skills in deploying, securing, and optimizing serverless architecturesDeploy a multi-regional system and explore the strangler pattern for migrating legacy systemsMaster techniques for collecting and utilizing metrics, including RUM, Synthetics, and Anomaly detection.Who this book is forThis book is for software architects who want to learn more about different software design patterns and best practices. This isn't a beginner's manual - you'll need an intermediate level of programming proficiency and software design experience to get started.You'll get the most out of this software design book if you already know the basics of the cloud, but it isn't a prerequisite.Table of ContentsArchitecting for InnovationsDefining Boundaries and Letting GoTaming the Presentation TierTrusting Facts and Eventual ConsistencyTurning the Cloud into the DatabaseA Best Friend for the FrontendBridging Intersystem GapsReacting to Events with More EventsRunning in Multiple RegionsSecuring Autonomous Subsystems in DepthChoreographing Deployment and DeliveryOptimizing ObservabilityDon't Delay, Start Experimenting

Drink, drink, with a killer in your midst. Then fate shakes you out of your stupor. Through the Crack Zone is a psychological thriller set in New York City. The central character is a bartender. Having lost all interest in life after a failed romance and other personal setbacks, he has severed all ties and is determinedly drinking himself to death. Even a series of nearby murders and the possibility of a serial killer on the loose in his neighborhood fail to awaken any emotion. Then one victim is found just outside his apartment, and the strange behavior of an upstairs tenant finally captures his attention and arouses his suspicions. As the investigation, identification, and apprehension of the killer proceed, the bartender's grudging assistance forces him to emerge from his isolation and re-engage with society. The sequence of events by which an otherwise horrific affair restores meaning to a deteriorating life is a story that transcends genre.

The Song of God finds a young tank commander, A.J. Nash, in the leading element of the coming assault at the kickoff of the First Gulf War. Waiting in the long night between Coalition and Iraqi lines, A.J. is torn between his duty as a soldier and his moral obligation to not kill. What transpires is a conversation in which A.J. not only discovers how to reconcile this dilemma, but also the very Truth that lies behind the fabric of reality itself! One of the most impactful and salient books a person can read is the Bhagavad-Gita, widely regarded as Hinduism's central and seminal revelation. Beyond its spiritual implications, the Gita answers in great detail ever-plaguing questions like 'How can a warrior kill yet still be moral?' and 'What is the cause of evil?' The problem with current translations is that they are full of difficult words and esoteric philosophical systems, rendering them barely palatable to the modern Western reader. This interpretation seeks to remedy that by supplanting unfamiliar ideas with correlating concepts found in Western traditions (such as Freemasonry, Hermeticism, Alchemy, Christianity and Gnosticism). It's an easy and short read plain English.

The Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde - Preserved at the castle, Kilkenny - Volume I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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Parallel Lives, Parallel Nations, is a narrative history of Rome & the Jews, their relations and their worlds from 161 BC to 135 AD. The time frame effectively covers the rise and fall of Roman-Jewish relations, beginning with the first Jewish delegation sent to Rome by the Maccabees, and culminating with the bloody Bar-Kochba Revolt some three hundred years later during the reign of Hadrian. The book covers in depth Rome's fall as a republic and rise as an empire alongside the parallel rise, fall, and eventual destruction of the Jewish national state. Largely set in the first centuries BC and AD, the work addresses two extremely personality-driven centuries in which the most familiar figures of antiquity---Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Herod, Jesus---all appeared upon the historical scene. A political era driven by very individualistic and even operatic events, this history, while wholly factual, reads like a non-fiction novel, with each chapter ending in a suspenseful fashion. Volume Two finds Rome set on its steady course as an empire under the aegis of Augustus while little Judea struggles under Herod's weak-willed successor. In order to quell unrest, and by appeal from many of its own people, Judea is eventually annexed and made a province. Augustus meanwhile wrestles with the dilemma of succession, which turns out badly. The peculiar personalities and behavior of the next four emperors, from the dour Tiberius to the bizarre Nero, bring Rome's foreign policy regarding Judea to an all time low. Wracked by religious schisms, chronic banditry, and a steady line of either inept, corrupt, or indifferent governors, forces within Judea eventually decide to revolt and break away from the Empire. Standing alone and without any allies, Judea takes on the full weight and angry onslaught of Rome, leading to the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem. Even then the fires of rebellion continue to smolder, and the conflict between the Romans and the Jews doesn't flare up and finally burn out for another 60 years.

William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 - 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Ebers introduced Ainsworth to literary and dramatic circles, and to his daughter, who became Ainsworth's wife. Ainsworth briefly tried the publishing business, but soon gave it up and devoted himself to journalism and literature. His first success as a writer came with Rookwood in 1834, which features Dick Turpin as its leading character. A stream of 39 novels followed, the last of which appeared in 1881. Ainsworth died in Reigate on 3 January 1882. EARLY LIFE: Ainsworth was born on 4 February 1805 in the family house at 21 King Street, Manchester, to Thomas Ainsworth, a prominent Manchester lawyer, and Ann (Harrison) Ainsworth, the daughter of the Rev. Ralph Harrison, the Unitarian minister at Manchester Cross Street Chapel. On 4 October 1806, Ainsworth's brother, Thomas Gilbert Ainsworth, was born. Although the family home was eventually destroyed, it was a three-storey Georgian home in a well-to-do community. The area influenced Ainsworth with its historical and romantic atmosphere, which existed until the community was later replaced by commercial buildings. Besides the community, Ainsworth read romantic works as a child and enjoyed stories dealing with either adventure or supernatural themes. Of these, Dick Turpin was a favourite of Ainsworth. During his childhood, he adopted Jacobean ideas and held Tory ideas in addition to his Jacobite sympathies, even though his community was strict Whig and Nonconformist. During this time, Ainsworth began to write prolifically. The Ainsworth family moved to Smedly Lane, north of Manchester in Cheetham Hill, during 1811. They kept the old residence in addition to the new, but resided in the new home most of the time. The surrounding hilly country was covered in woods, which allowed Ainsworth and his brother to act out various stories. When not playing, Ainsworth was tutored by his uncle, William Harrison. In March 1817, he was enrolled at Manchester Grammar School, which was described in his novel Mervyn Clitheroe. The work emphasised that his classical education was of good quality but was reinforced with strict discipline and corporal punishment. Ainsworth was a strong student and was popular among his fellow students. His school days were mixed; his time within the school and with his family was calm even though there were struggles within the Manchester community, the Peterloo Massacre taking place in 1819. Ainsworth was connected to the event because his uncles joined in protest at the incident, but Ainsworth was able to avoid most of the political after-effects. During the time, he was able to pursue his own literary interests and even created his own little theatre within the family home at King Street. Along with his friends and brother, he created and acted in many plays throughout 1820. During 1820, Ainsworth began to publish many of his works under the name "Thomas Hall".... Sir John Gilbert RA (21 July 1817 - 5 October 1897) was an English artist, illustrator and engraver.

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The Lancashire Witches is the only one of William Harrison Ainsworth's forty novels that has remained continuously in print since its first publication.It was serialised in the Sunday Times newspaper in 1848; a book edition appeared the following year, published by Henry Colburn. The novel is based on the true story of the Pendle witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm by witchcraft. Modern critics such as David Punter consider the book to be Ainsworth's best work.E. F. Bleiler rated the novel "one of the major English novels about witchcraft". Biographical background and publication: The subject of the Pendle witches was suggested to Ainsworth by antiquarian and long-time friend James Crossley, President of the Chetham Society. During 1846 and 1847 Ainsworth visited all of the major sites involved in the story, such as Pendle Hill and Malkin Tower, home of the Demdikes, one of the two families accused of witchcraft. He wrote the story in 1848, when it was serialised in the Sunday Times newspaper. On completion of the work, Ainsworth was paid £1,000 (equivalent to about £78,600 as of 2008), and the copyright reverted to him. As was common practice at the time, the novel was published in a three-volume set, known as a "triple decker". The first edition was produced by Henry Colburn in 1849, with the subtitle "A Romance of Pendle Forest". At £1 11s 6d, about the amount that a skilled worker could earn in a week, it was expensive. Routledge published an illustrated edition in 1854, reissued in 1878. The twelve full-page illustrations were by John Gilbert. Plot: Ainsworth based his story largely on the official account of the Lancashire witch trials written by the clerk to the court, Thomas Potts, first published in 1613 under the title The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster. Potts himself makes an appearance in the novel, as a "scheming and self-serving lawyer". Book one is set against the backdrop of the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace, an uprising by northern Catholics against the English Reformation instituted by King Henry VIII... William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 - 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Ebers introduced Ainsworth to literary and dramatic circles, and to his daughter, who became Ainsworth's wife. Ainsworth briefly tried the publishing business, but soon gave it up and devoted himself to journalism and literature. His first success as a writer came with Rookwood in 1834, which features Dick Turpin as its leading character. A stream of 39 novels followed, the last of which appeared in 1881. Ainsworth died in Reigate on 3 January 1882.... Sir John Gilbert RA (21 July 1817 - 5 October 1897) was an English artist, illustrator and engraver.Gilbert was born in Blackheath, Surrey, and taught himself to paint. His only formal instruction was from George Lance. Skilled in several media, Gilbert gained the nickname, "the Scott of painting". He was best known for the illustrations and woodcuts he produced for the Illustrated London News....

The Royal Alphabet of Kings and Queens is a book written by John Gilbert in 1843. It is a comprehensive collection of biographical sketches of all the kings and queens of England from William the Conqueror to Queen Victoria. The book is organized alphabetically, with each monarch assigned a letter of the alphabet. The book provides a detailed account of each monarch's life and reign, including their achievements, failures, and notable events. It also includes portraits of each monarch, along with their coat of arms and other relevant information. The Royal Alphabet of Kings and Queens is a valuable resource for historians, students, and anyone interested in the history of the British monarchy. It is written in a clear and concise style, making it accessible to readers of all ages and backgrounds. Overall, this book is a fascinating and informative look at the lives and legacies of the kings and queens who have shaped England's history.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Chuck Hansen and Max Stromberg are two former NYC detectives who now work as private eyes. Based on Long Island, they do specialty work. They kill people. Yet they are not average contract hit men. They are highly particular about the cases they take on, and they like to think of themselves as the good guys, avenging angels. The people they kill have to be very bad and deserve to die. Fat chance in a profession filled with cutthroats. Fat chance when you do a hit on someone who has ties to the mob. They are soon put to task by the Mafia, not so much for the hit itself, but for the identity of the person who ordered it. Hansen and Stromberg frankly don't know, since everything was arranged through a middle man. Irony of ironies, our two anti-heroes find themselves forced to solve a crime that they themselves have committed. The trail soon has them crossing paths and, much to their displeasure, joining forces with ''bizarre'' members of the intelligence community.

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Parallel Lives, Parallel Nations, is a narrative history of Rome & the Jews, their relations and their worlds from 161 BC to 135 AD. The time frame effectively covers the rise and fall of Roman-Jewish relations, beginning with the first Jewish delegation sent to Rome by the Maccabees, and culminating with the bloody Bar-Kochba Revolt some three hundred years later during the reign of Hadrian. The book covers in depth Rome's fall as a republic and rise as an empire alongside the parallel rise, fall, and eventual destruction of the Jewish national state. Largely set in the first centuries BC and AD, the work addresses two extremely personality-driven centuries in which the most familiar figures of antiquity---Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Herod, Jesus---all appeared upon the historical scene. A political era driven by very individualistic and even operatic events, this history, while wholly factual, reads like a non-fiction novel, with each chapter ending in a suspenseful fashion. Volume One follows the course of events from 161 to 4 BC, up through the reign of Herod the Great. This is the period which saw the rise and conclusion of Rome's civil wars, the first phase of the pax romana, and the struggles of Judea as it becomes an independent nation, only to find itself pulled into Rome's powerful orbit. It is an era of warlords, political adventurers, and warrior kings.

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It's not wise to tempt fate. It's a hard thing to avoid if you've got the world working against you. Alex McCleod, formerly with the CIA, now runs a very sophisticated ''information & intelligence'' service out of Washington. He is hired by an abrasive Texan millionaire, Elliot Streicher, to find the man's missing daughter, last seen with some notorious Mexican cartel people on a ship out in California. Yet from the start, despite the generous payment to undertake the assignment, things are suspicious. Prime of which is Streicher himself who, in addition to his almost cavalier attitude regarding his daughter's disappearance, has all kinds of bizarre, inside government connections to people who were involved in McCleod's ''forced retirement'' from the CIA. As McCleod sets out on the case, he swiftly suspects that he is not really being employed for his talents as a detective at all, but rather as a fall guy in a set-up. Indeed, as he continues on the trail, dealing with Mexican gangsters and Nazi bikers, he soon discovers that he is carefully being watched and monitored by not only the DEA and the FBI, but by his former associates back at Langley. Something far greater than a missing rich girl is at stake here, something that has his investigation stepping on some very big and important toes. Realizing he's being screwed and his fate is being sealed, McCleod decides to play a wild hand.

William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 - 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Ebers introduced Ainsworth to literary and dramatic circles, and to his daughter, who became Ainsworth's wife. Ainsworth briefly tried the publishing business, but soon gave it up and devoted himself to journalism and literature. His first success as a writer came with Rookwood in 1834, which features Dick Turpin as its leading character. A stream of 39 novels followed, the last of which appeared in 1881. Ainsworth died in Reigate on 3 January 1882. EARLY LIFE: Ainsworth was born on 4 February 1805 in the family house at 21 King Street, Manchester, to Thomas Ainsworth, a prominent Manchester lawyer, and Ann (Harrison) Ainsworth, the daughter of the Rev. Ralph Harrison, the Unitarian minister at Manchester Cross Street Chapel. On 4 October 1806, Ainsworth's brother, Thomas Gilbert Ainsworth, was born. Although the family home was eventually destroyed, it was a three-storey Georgian home in a well-to-do community. The area influenced Ainsworth with its historical and romantic atmosphere, which existed until the community was later replaced by commercial buildings. Besides the community, Ainsworth read romantic works as a child and enjoyed stories dealing with either adventure or supernatural themes. Of these, Dick Turpin was a favourite of Ainsworth. During his childhood, he adopted Jacobean ideas and held Tory ideas in addition to his Jacobite sympathies, even though his community was strict Whig and Nonconformist. During this time, Ainsworth began to write prolifically.... James Crichton, known as the Admirable Crichton (19 August 1560 - 3 July 1582), was a Scottish polymath noted for his extraordinary accomplishments in languages, the arts, and sciences before he was killed at the age of 21.... Sir John Gilbert RA (21 July 1817 - 5 October 1897) was an English artist, illustrator and engraver

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Strange curses, unnatural gifts and a spectre with a mission populate the second collection of horror stories from British Fantasy Award winner John Gilbert. Award-winning journalist and author John Gilbert is the Managing Editor of FEAR Magazine. Alphabet of Desires is his second short story collection and is published as a prelude to the launch of his new novel Passover which is published later this year. John divides his time between his house in Seven Dials, Brighton, which he describes as a work in progress and a flat in South London.

Appearances can be misleading; they can prove deadly, too. This is something soon learned by Franco and Sputnik, two small time playboy drug dealers from Key West. As a favor to an old time mobster friend, Franco persuades Sputnik to take a job roughing up some punk who is having an affair with the wife of a Mafia client. What they don't realize is that the punk in question is not only a made man, but also the nephew of a big time New York godfather. Worse yet, the woman in question is anything but a casual, misbehaving housewife. In fact, she soon proves to be one of the deadliest creatures that Franco and Sputnik have ever met, with all kinds of "past karma" hot on her trail. By taking on the job they become entangled in her affairs, and involved in a series of gruesome murders and events that take them, and her, from New York to Miami all the way down to Mexico, with the DEA, CIA, Russians, and Mexican syndicates hot on the trail after them.

It's fear gripping story filled with lots of mind blowingsuspense, it's a show of foolish bravely, betrayal, placing influence before humanity.It tells the story of greed.Everything happening so fast at the cemetery. Curious right?Scroll up and add to cart.

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