Serverless Integration Design Patterns with Azure

A practical guide that helps you progress to using modern integration methods and leverage new cloud capability models

Key Features

• Design critical hybrid integration solutions for your organization
• Gain in-depth knowledge of how to build cloud-native integration solutions
• Leverage cognitive services to build smart cloud solutions

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Learn about the design principles of Microsoft Azure Serverless Integration
• Get insights into Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Event Grid and Service Bus
• Secure and manage your integration endpoints using Azure API Management
• Build advanced B2B solutions using Logic Apps, Enterprise Integration Pack
• Monitor integration solutions using tools available on the market
• Discover design patterns for hybrid integration

Who this book is for

Serverless Integration Design Patterns with Azure is for you if you are a solution architect or integration professional aiming to build complex cloud solutions for your organization. Developers looking to build next-level hybrid or cloud solutions will also find this book useful. Prior programming knowledge is necessary.

Table of Contents

1. Serverless Integration with Microsoft Azure
2. Azure Functions and Enterprise Integration
3. Introduction to Azure Event Grid
4. Azure API Management
5. Azure Service Bus with Integration Services
6. Introduction to Logic Apps
7. Control Flow Actions and Custom Connectors
8. Patterns with Azure Integration Services
9. B2B/EDI Solutions for Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps
10. Hybrid Integration, BizTalk Server 2016 and an On-Premises Data Gateway
11. Intelligence in Integration Using Azure Cognitive Services
12. DevOps for Azure Integration
13. Monitoring for Azure Integration

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.Srinivasa Mahendrakar has more than 13 years' experience in the IT industry in building applications and data integration solutions using Microsoft technologies including BizTalk, SSIS, Azure Integration Services, and Azure Functions. His career roles included developer, technical lead, solution architect, and product owner, and he has been involved in building highly regarded solutions in industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, energy, and utilities. For the past three years, he has been working at BizTalk360, to build tools for modern integration solutions. Currently, he is a product director, heading up the Atomic Scope product team. He has also hosted Integration Monday and Global Integration Boot camp sessions.