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Serverless Integration Design Patterns with Azure

By : Abhishek Kumar, Srinivasa Mahendrakar
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Serverless Integration Design Patterns with Azure

By: Abhishek Kumar, Srinivasa Mahendrakar

Overview of this book

With more enterprises adapting cloud-based and API-based solutions, application integration has become more relevant and significant than ever before. Parallelly, Serverless Integration has gained popularity, as it helps agile organizations to build integration solutions quickly without having to worry about infrastructure costs. With Microsoft Azure’s serverless offerings, such as Logic Apps, Azure Functions, API Management, Azure Event Grid and Service Bus, organizations can build powerful, secure, and scalable integration solutions with ease. The primary objective of this book is to help you to understand various serverless offerings included within Azure Integration Services, taking you through the basics and industry practices and patterns. This book starts by explaining the concepts of services such as Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Service Bus with hands-on examples and use cases. After getting to grips with the basics, you will be introduced to API Management and building B2B solutions using Logic Apps Enterprise Integration Pack. This book will help readers to understand building hybrid integration solutions and touches upon Microsoft Cognitive Services and leveraging them in modern integration solutions. Industry practices and patterns are brought to light at appropriate opportunities while explaining various concepts.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Azure Logic Apps – cloud workflow engine

Azure Logic Apps is part of the Azure Integration Services family and is an integration workflow engine in the cloud. With Azure Logic Apps, you can get started in no time and automate your workflows as required. With Azure Logic Apps, you can build highly scalable workflows in the cloud by taking advantage of more than 200 connectors (more than 200 were available at the time of writing):

Logic Apps works natively in a serverless fashion. What this means is that, like other serverless platforms, Logic Apps is also highly extensible in terms of micro-billing, scaling on demand, no infrastructure cost, a high level of monitoring, and the ability to bring your own APIs into Logic Apps and use it as a standard connector for building your integration solution.

Organizations are also reaping the benefits of flexible pricing models for Logic Apps. With Logic Apps, you are only charged for your usage (consumption-based pricing model); alternatively, you can opt for the Integration Service Environment (ISE) and pay a fixed price for your enterprise integration environment. ISE is a great step toward running an enterprise integration environment within a client's own virtual network, while still enjoying all the benefits of the cloud. We will learn more about ISE capabilities in later chapters.