You're reading from Designing API-First Enterprise Architectures on Azure A guide for architects and developers to expedite digital transformation with API-led architectures

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813914

Length 290 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

.NET Core

Concepts

Software Architecture

Author (1):

Subhajit Chatterjee

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: API-Led Architecture in the Digital Economy

2. Chapter 1: Evolution of Enterprise Solution Architectures FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: APIs as Digital Connectors

4. Section 2: Build Reliable API-Centric Solutions

5. Chapter 3: Architecture Principles and API Styles

6. Chapter 4: Assuring the Quality of the API Service (or Product)

7. Chapter 5: RESTful APIs – the New Web

8. Chapter 6: API Design Practices

9. Chapter 7: Accelerating through DevOps Essentials

10. Section 3: Deliver Business Value for a Modern Enterprise

11. Chapter 8: API-Centric Enterprise Integrations

12. Chapter 9: APIs as a Monetized Product

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Chapter 8: API-Centric Enterprise Integrations

Enterprises and their technology uses have been evolving constantly since the launch of cloud technologies. This has resulted in the need to develop integration interfaces to support interoperability across various systems and applications. The adoption of API-led architectures is vital to the success of these Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) scenarios. API solutions can revolve around business entities or domain models, thereby enabling standardization across all the integrating parties.

The purpose of this chapter is to take a deeper look into some real-world enterprise integration scenarios and explore how the Azure Integration Services offering can be utilized to build modern API-based integration platforms. Most of the popular players in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) space, such as Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, and TIBCO, are adopting industry-standard protocols and patterns for their interfaces as well. Hence...