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A Developer's Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure

By : Hamida Rebai Trabelsi
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A Developer's Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure

By: Hamida Rebai Trabelsi

Overview of this book

To deliver software at a faster rate and reduced costs, companies with stable legacy systems and growing data volumes are trying to modernize their applications and accelerate innovation, but this is no easy matter. A Developer’s Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure helps you overcome these application modernization challenges to build secure and reliable cloud-based applications on Azure and connect them to databases with the help of easy-to-follow examples. The book begins with a basic definition of serverless and event-driven architecture and Database-as-a-Service, before moving on to an exploration of the different services in Azure, namely Azure API Management using the gateway pattern, event-driven architecture, Event Grid, Azure Event Hubs, Azure message queues, FaaS using Azure Functions, and the database-oriented cloud. Throughout the chapters, you’ll learn about creating, importing, and managing APIs and Service Fabric in Azure, and discover how to ensure continuous integration and deployment in Azure to fully automate the software delivery process, that is, the build and release process. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build and deploy cloud-oriented applications using APIs, serverless, Service Fabric, Azure Functions, and Event Grid technologies.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Building Cloud-Oriented Apps Using Patterns and Technologies
5
Part 2: Connecting Your Application with Azure Databases
13
Part 3: Ensuring Continuous Integration and Continuous Container Deployment on Azure

Exploring the API Management service

We will describe, in this section, the components of API Management and their functions, and we will explore the products that use APIs in API Management.

API Management components

Azure API Management is a hybrid, portable, multi-cloud management platform for APIs, providing as core functionality the assurance of a successful API program through developer engagement, business insights, analytics, security, and protection. Each API can include one or more operations and can be added to one or more products.

How can an API be used in API Management?

The use of an API by developers is really simple and interactive. They must subscribe to a product that includes this API, and then they can call the desired operation of the API by ensuring enforcement of usage policies that may be in effect.

APIs provide a simplified experience when integrating applications, enabling the reuse and accessibility of new product and service data on a universal...