Daniel Bryant

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

Continuous delivery adds enormous value to the business and the entire software delivery lifecycle, but adopting this practice means mastering new skills typically outside of a developer’s comfort zone. In this practical book, Daniel Bryant and Abraham Marín-Pérez provide guidance to help experienced Java developers master skills such as architectural design, automated quality assurance, and application packaging and deployment on a variety of platforms. Not only will you learn how to create a comprehensive build pipeline for continually delivering effective software, but you’ll also explore how Java application architecture and deployment platforms have affected the way we rapidly and safely deliver new software to production environments. Get advice for beginning or completing your migration to continuous delivery Design architecture to enable the continuous delivery of Java applications Build application artifacts including fat JARs, virtual machine images, and operating system container (Docker) images Use continuous integration tooling like Jenkins, PMD, and find-sec-bugs to automate code quality checks Create a comprehensive build pipeline and design software to separate the deploy and release processes Explore why functional and system quality attribute testing is vital from development to delivery Learn how to effectively build and test applications locally and observe your system while it runs in production

Book II of the Warlock Mysteries. Gabriel has been forced to make his first kill and he now knows what he is, but not what he may become. The youngest of all the warlocks, he must try to defeat the world's strongest werewolf and its army of followers. The creature known only as the White Alpha, is intent on destroying all humans that resist being infected by the shifter virus. If Gabriel can't stop the creature, humans will become extinct. However, in trying to stop the beast, Gabriel might be the one to destroy all life on Earth With his adopted wolf Apollo by his side, young Gabriel faces an impossible choice.

Werewolves are in fact very, very real. Protected, controlled and sometimes destroyed by an elite group known only as the Warlocks. After centuries of being controlled and kept under wraps, the global population of werewolves are about to rise up and wipe out humanity. Only Gabriel and Apollo stand in their way. A young man, the youngest ever to join the Warlock Corps, and his adopted wolf, must prepare to take on the Earth's most powerful werewolf. Not fully human, one knows exactly what Gabriel is. They fear him but they know he is their only chance to stop the extinction of the human race.

This is the action packed final book in the Chandaran Chronicles trilogy. Zan and Lexa have been battling impossible odds and unbelievable enemies as they try to save Chandara from an unspeakable evil. Guided by a cryptic prophecy and the mysterious Ancient Ones of Panthera, the two are now on the last leg of their quest to save all intelligent life on the planet. The Ancient Ones have given them the third and final part of a thousand year old prophecy. In order to complete the quest, the two must now enter the Forbidden Mountains. A place so deadly, no one has entered there and lived to tell about, for more than a thousand years. Zan and Lexa's only hope of making it out of the mountains alive is to trust a new pair of friends. But nothing in the Forbidden Mountains is what it seems. What are a lone pair of Pantherans doing living within these isolated and deadly mountains? Are they what they appear to be, or something else entirely? Can they be trusted?The fate of an entire planet rests squarely on the backs of these teenagers, one human and one a giant panther. Together they are possibly the most powerful pair ever to exist on Chandara, but will it be enough?