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Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps

By : Matthew Bennett
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Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps

By: Matthew Bennett

Overview of this book

Logic Apps are a visual flowchart-like representation of common programming actions, and are a flexible way to create logic without writing a single line of code. Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps is a comprehensive introduction for anyone new to Logic Apps which will boost your learning skills and allow you to create rich, complex, structured, and reusable logic with instant results. You'll begin by discovering how to navigate the Azure portal and understand how your objects can be zoned to a specific environment by using resource groups. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you the benefits and foundations of Logic App logic design. As you advance, you'll find out how to manage your Azure environment in relation to Logic Apps and how to create elegant and reliable Logic Apps. With useful and practical explanations of how to get the most out of Logic App actions and triggers, you'll be able to ensure that your Logic Apps work efficiently and provide seamless integration for real-world scenarios without having to write code. By the end of this Logic Apps book, you'll be able to create complex and powerful Logic Apps within minutes, integrating large amounts of data on demand, enhancing your systems, and linking applications to improve user experience.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Logic App Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Logic App Design
13
Section 3: Logic App Maintenance and Management

It all leads to logic

"Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority."

-(Doctor Who, The Wheel in Space, 1968)

"Everything yields to logic. Our basic assumption."

-(Doctor Who, The Tomb of the Cybermen, 1967)

And so, we come to the most important tool to connect all these systems together –logic apps.

The Microsoft Azure Logic App is an example of no-code development. The idea is that a non-technical person who has not learned a programming language can still produce logic in much the same way that a business analyst may structure a sequence of events in a Visio flowchart.

Note

Sadly, I once lost a government teaching contract due to the change toward no-code development. I delivered a Visio training course and mentioned that the aim for Microsoft was to allow non-programmers to create program code. The initial idea was that a Visio diagram of an application would contain logic, and that could be turned into a skeleton of modules and functions within Visual Studio.

Not so far out. The eventual product was Logic Apps.