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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)

Microsoft and the democratization of AI

The democratization of machine learning means making machine learning available for everyone, including individuals and businesses. Microsoft is one company that is making this possible, through the following four approaches:

  • Microsoft is striving to change how people interact with ambient computing by using AI.
  • Microsoft is trying to introduce AI in every application or device that people interact with in their daily lives.
  • Microsoft is trying to provide cognitive capabilities to every application developer in the world.
  • Microsoft is in the process of building the world's most powerful supercomputer, which will be equipped with AI, open source, and accessed through the cloud so that anyone can tackle the challenges associated with AI.

Microsoft has pledged to carry out this vision for democratizing AI. In the following sections...