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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)

Custom connectors and Cosmos graph databases

As we have seen throughout this book, we can build integration workflows powered by Logic Apps, Microsoft Flow, or Power Apps without having any hand in the code. In this section, we will discuss how we can leverage existing APIs and make standard custom connectors to connect integration platforms and services, whether they are cloud resources or on-premises applications.

To get started with the custom connector, we have created a Gremlin API to connect with a Cosmos graph database using the Gremlin.Net library. To find out more about graph databases and the Gremlin query language, you can read through the Cosmos DB documentation available at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/graph-introduction.

The Gremlin custom API performs create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on graph nodes (documents) with the Gremlin...