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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)

B2B scenario

To understand the capabilities of an integration account, we'll make use of a fictitious company called ShipAnyWhere. The ShipAnyWhere is a large logistics company that is specialized in commerce and fulfillment solutions for e-commerce businesses around the world. It has got more than 100 distribution centers across more than 30 countries. It provides B2B, e-commerce, and multi-channel fulfillment solutions to its customers using cutting-edge technologies.

It has a trading partner called Contoso, who sends X12 orders over AS2. In our scenario, we assume both Contoso and ShipAnyWhere make use of Logic Apps:

The following are the steps involved in processing order messages from Contoso to ShipAnyWhere:

  1. Contoso generates an X12 order in a logic app. However, for demonstration purposes, we are assuming that the Contoso Logic App receives an EDI X12 order from...