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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786465573

Length 696 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (6):

Abhishek Kumar

Martin Abbott

Gyanendra Kumar Gautam

James Corbould

Mahindra Morar

Ashish Bhambhani

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. An Introduction to Systems Integration in the Cloud FREE CHAPTER

2. What Is an Azure App Service?

3. Getting Started with API Apps

4. What is Azure API Management?

5. Trigger Your First Logic App in Azure

6. Working with Connectors in Logic Apps

7. Azure Functions in Logic Apps

8. A Deep Dive into Logic Apps

9. Powerful Integration with SaaS Using Logic Apps

10. Advanced Integration with Powerful, Scalable Service Bus in the Cloud

11. Connecting to Event Hubs and an Introduction to IoT Hubs

12. EAI/B2B Integration Using Logic Apps

13. Hybrid Integration Using BizTalk Server 2016 and Logic Apps

14. Tooling and Monitoring for Logic Apps

15. Whats Next for Azure Integration?

The anatomy of Azure API Management

To understand how to get the best out of an API, it is important to understand some terms that are used for APIs and within Azure API Management, and these are described here.

API and operations

An API provides an abstraction layer through an endpoint that allows interaction with entities or processes that would otherwise be difficult to consume.

Most API developers favor using a RESTful approach to API applications since this allows us easy understanding on how to work with the operations that the API exposes and provides scalability, modifiability, reliability, and performance. Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that was introduced by Roy Fielding in his doctoral thesis in 2000:( http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm ).

Typically, modern APIs are exposed using HTTP since this makes it easier for different types of clients to interact with it, and this increased interoperability provides...