Mountebank is like nothing you've ever seen before: a systematized sketchbook that tracks the inner workings of an obsessive brain and a book that could only be described as "psychedoolic." Both meditative and hypnotic, D.W. invites you to get lost alongside anthropomorphic creatures crawling through grid paper labyrinths and in his own brand of whirling dervish mark-making.

Summary Testing Microservices with Mountebank is your guide to the ins and outs of testing microservices with service virtualization. The book offers unique insights into microservices application design and state-of-the-art testing practices that will deepen your microservices skills and improve your applications. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Even if you lab test each service in isolation, it's challenging—and potentially dangerous—to test a live microservices system that's changing and growing. Fortunately, you can use Mountebank to "imitate" the components of a distributed microservices application to give you a good approximation of the runtime conditions as you test individual services. About the Book Testing Microservices with Mountebank introduces the powerful practice of service virtualization. In it, author Brandon Byars, Mountebank's creator, offers unique insights into microservices application design and state-of-the-art testing practices. You'll expand your understanding of microservices as you work with Mountebank's imposters, responses, behaviors, and programmability. By mastering the powerful testing techniques in this unique book, your microservices skills will deepen and your applications will improve. For real. What's inside The core concepts of service virtualization Testing using canned responses Programming Mountebank Performance testing About the Reader Written for developers familiar with SOA or microservices systems. About the Author Brandon Byars is the author and chief maintainer of Mountebank and a principal consultant at ThoughtWorks. Table of Contents PART 1 - FIRST STEPS Testing microservices Taking mountebank for a test drive PART 2 - USING MOUNTEBANK Testing using canned responses Using predicates to send different responses Adding record/replay behavior Programming mountebank Adding behaviors Protocols PART 3 - CLOSING THE LOOP Mountebank and continuous delivery Performance testing with mountebank

Short novel of confused identity and a strange legacy, about an English actor who hates publicity and disappears at the height of his fame.