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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)

AI

AI is a very broad concept that involves machines being able to perform human-like tasks in a way that is considered smart. In computer science, AI research is based on the study of intelligent agents. A device is said to be equipped with AI if it learns from its environment and performs actions that increase its probability of successfully achieving its goals. In other words, the term AI is used when a machine imitates the cognitive functions performed by humans, such as learning and problem solving. AI has been around for a long time. Greek mythology contains stories of mechanical men (http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Talos/talos.html) designed to mimic our own behavior. Based on these ideas, there have been many works of fiction in literature and film exploring AI.

As can be seen from the following diagram, AI is a broad concept that covers the concepts of machine...