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 # nodezoo-npm
 
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/nodezoo/nodezoo-npm.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/nodezoo/nodezoo-npm)
+[![Gitter Chat](https://badges.gitter.im/Join%20Chat.svg)](https://gitter.im/nodezoo/nodezoo-org)
 
 This is a repository in the microservice demonstration system for
 the [Tao of Microservices](//bit.ly/rmtaomicro) book (chapter 9). This
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 ## Message flows
 
 The table shows how this microservice acts on the `Accepted` message