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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)

Why hybrid integration?

Data is more important than ever. An organization relies heavily on its existing data for both current market requirements and future innovation. In the journey of digital transformation, applications can span cloud-based and on-premises environments. Hybrid integration provides a perfect middleware solution for enterprises, ensuring that data from on-premises legacy systems can integrate with cloud solutions in a secure manner. This also ensures that businesses can take full advantage of existing infrastructure when driving the business forward.

Hybrid solutions provide many advantages compared to solutions based on running within a corporate firewall. Some of those benefits are discussed here:

  • Maximization of past and existing investment: Most businesses have invested huge amounts of resources in building custom enterprise applications and storing data...