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Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

You're reading from Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786465573

Pages 696 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Authors (6):

Gyanendra Kumar Gautam

Ashish Bhambhani

Abhishek Kumar

James Corbould

Mahindra Morar

Martin Abbott

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. An Introduction to Systems Integration in the Cloud

2. What Is an Azure App Service?

3. Getting Started with API Apps

4. What is Azure API Management?

5. Trigger Your First Logic App in Azure

6. Working with Connectors in Logic Apps

7. Azure Functions in Logic Apps

8. A Deep Dive into Logic Apps

9. Powerful Integration with SaaS Using Logic Apps

10. Advanced Integration with Powerful, Scalable Service Bus in the Cloud

11. Connecting to Event Hubs and an Introduction to IoT Hubs

12. EAI/B2B Integration Using Logic Apps

13. Hybrid Integration Using BizTalk Server 2016 and Logic Apps

14. Tooling and Monitoring for Logic Apps

15. Whats Next for Azure Integration?

Why use API Apps?

API Apps in Azure App Service make it easy to develop, publish, and consume your APIs in cloud and on-premise. If you have some capability you want to expose as an API, you should deploy it as an API App to make use of these key benefits out of the box:

A scalable RESTful API with enterprise-level security
API discoverable using Swagger metadata
Multiple language and framework support
Automatic client SDK generation
Visual Studio Integration
Access on-premise data using Hybrid Connections
Packaging and Marketplace support
It can be used in a business process workflow by integrating it with Logic Apps:

The API App host takes care of managing authentication for the app, which helps developers get rid of the headache of implementing it themselves. They can now focus on developing the business logic and leverage API App features to secure it.

With enterprise-level security, you can use your secured API in any of your web app or mobile apps. API Apps also support the most popular and...

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Authors (6)

Gyanendra Kumar Gautam

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Ashish Bhambhani

Ashish Bhambhani is an Integration Sr. Premier Field Engineer working for Microsoft. He lives in the Seattle region. He has been working in the integration space for more than a decade. In his current role he helps Microsofts enterprise customers by architecting, designing, building, and maintaining their integration solutions. Recently, he has been able to roll out Azure technologies enterprise-wide for his clients and replace their legacy solutions. He is a content creator and master trainer for some of a Microsofts training that is delivered to clients worldwide. Additionally, he was part of the team that wrote the BizTalk performance whitepaper for msdn.com

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Abhishek Kumar

Abhishek Kumar works with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise as an integration and data specialist. He is a Microsoft Azure MVP with deep expertise in software development and design. He is a co-author of Robust Cloud Integration and a seasoned contributor to Microsoft blogs, forums, and events. As a technological evangelist, he is specialized in cloud-based technologies such as Azure Functions, Microsoft Graph, Logic Apps, Web API, and Cosmos DB, along with various Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) such as Salesforce, Office 365, and ServiceNow. As a technology advocate, he promotes loosely coupled solution design along with event-based programming.

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James Corbould

James Corbould has been working in the IT sector since 2003, developing and supporting applications in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Since 2010, James has been working in the software integration field, designing and building integration solutions using Microsoft technologies such as BizTalk, SQL Server, WCF, .NET, and now Azure, for a wide range of different customers. Recently, he has been working in the health insurance sector and in the building supplies sector.James currently works for Datacom Systems as a consultant and team lead.

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Mahindra Morar

Mahindra Morar has been working in the IT sector from 1997, developing Windows and website enterprise applications. In 2009, he has been focusing primarily on integrating systems as a principle integration consultant. Having come from an electronics engineering background, he is able to use this knowledge to design solutions that integrate between wetware, software and hardware.

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Martin Abbott

Martin Abbott is a Microsoft Azure MVP living in Perth, Western Australia. He started his career developing subroutines for commercial computational fluid dynamics software, eventually moving on to more mainstream development and systems integration. He has been working with BizTalk Server since the early days of the product, has spent a lot of time with WCF, but more recently has moved in to providing his customers with integration solutions spanning both on-premises and cloud workloads.

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