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.
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...