Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “The /debug/health endpoint is responsible for providing the health status of the microservice.”

A block of code is set as follows:

// Import required modules
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
// Debug endpoint to get the health status of the microservice
app.get('/debug/health', (req, res) => {

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

npm install winston

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “You can view and manage your monitors from the Monitors page…

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