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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)

Understanding the components of an Azure Function

In the previous section, we implemented the first part of our scenario by creating an Azure Function with a Service Bus queue trigger and running it locally. At this point, it is essential that we understand the various components of Azure Functions.

Application host file (host.json)

The host.json file is a configuration file containing the values that affect all the functions of a function app. This file is created as soon as we add an Azure Function project. This file will have at least one field to begin with, indicating the runtime version of Azure Functions.

The following is the content of the host.json file created in our sample project:

To understand the various elements...