Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

Mahindra Morar, Abhishek Kumar, Martin Abbott, Gyanendra Kumar Gautam, James Corbould, Ashish Bhambhani

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781786468185
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Cloud Computing
• Index: Computer Science

Unleash the power of serverless integration with AzureAbout This Book• Build and support highly available and scalable API Apps by learning powerful Azure-based cloud integration• Deploy and deliver applications that integrate seamlessly in the cloud and quickly adapt as per your integration needs• Deploy hybrid applications that work and integrate on the cloud (using Logic Apps and BizTalk Server)Who This Book Is ForThis book is for Microsoft Enterprise developers, DevOps, and IT professionals who would like to use Azure App Service and Microsoft Cloud Integration technologies to create cloud-based web and mobile apps.What You Will Learn• Explore new models of robust cloud integration in Microsoft Azure• Create your own connector and learn how to publish and manage it• Build reliable, scalable, and secure business workflows using Azure Logic Apps• Simplify SaaS connectivity with Azure using Logic Apps• Connect your on-premises system to Azure securely• Get to know more about Logic Apps and how to connect to on-premises "line-of-business" applications using Microsoft BizTalk ServerIn DetailMicrosoft is focusing heavily on Enterprise connectivity so that developers can build scalable web and mobile apps and services in the cloud. In short, Enterprise connectivity from anywhere and to any device. These integration services are being offered through powerful Azure-based services.This book will teach you how to design and implement cloud integration using Microsoft Azure. It starts by showing you how to build, deploy, and secure the API app. Next, it introduces you to Logic Apps and helps you quickly start building your integration applications. We'll then go through the different connectors available for Logic Apps to build your automated business process workflow.Further on, you will see how to create a complex workflow in Logic Apps using Azure Function. You will then add a SaaS application to your existing cloud applications and create Queues and Topics in Service Bus on Azure using Azure Portal. Towards the end, we'll explore event hubs and IoT hubs, and you'll get to know more about how to tool and monitor the business workflow in Logic Apps.Using this book, you will be able to support your apps that connect to data anywhere—be it in the cloud or on-premises.Style and approachThis practical hands-on tutorial shows you the full capability of App Service and other Azure-based integration services to build scalable and highly available web and mobile apps. It helps you successfully build and support your applications in the cloud or on-premises successfully. We'll debunk the popular myth that switching to cloud is risky—it's not!

Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

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Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

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Foreword

As the world becomes ever more connected to the cloud, integration is more relevant and important than ever. Also, as enterprises trust the cloud to run more and more workloads, robustness is a core non-negotiable requirement. With the diversity of services and applications both in the cloud and on premises, the need to provide the connective tissue that gets systems and services talking in a clean and efficient way is paramount. Let’s not forget that everyone also wants to achieve and improve the reuse and manageability as well as implementing their solutions quicker. Enterprise integration skills and experience are core competencies for this generational shift. As a practitioner for more than 20 years, I’ve seen this evolving firsthand, and the pace of innovation has not only been dramatic, but it’s also accelerating.

Keeping up with everything has become a challenge in itself and the goal of this book is to get you success in your projects as fast as possible. It covers everything from basic introductions to services to complex integration solutions all underpinned with practical and easy-to-understand scenarios that help consolidate your learning. Whether it is creating a simple Logic App or a more complex hybrid integration solution that spans both cloud and on premises, this book delves deep into all the key technologies that are part of the current integration landscape in Microsoft Azure.

Mahindra, Abhishek, Martin, James, Gautam, and Ashish have accumulated over 50 years of integration knowledge between them, and they use this experience to great effect to tell the story of cloud and hybrid integration in a way that is accessible and easy to learn. Using a fictional company, Sunny Electricals, they stitch together solutions that are immediately relevant and usable. I’m sure you’ll enjoy reading this book as much as I did and gain valuable insights from these experts that will help you be a great integration professional as well.

There’s never been a more exciting time to be working in the integration space. It's time for you to take your first steps into the world of Robust Cloud Integration with Azure!

Jon Fancey

Principal Program Manager

Pro Integration, Microsoft Corporation

About the Authors

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. He has worked in many industries, including manufacturing, financial institutions, insurance, retail/wholesale and power utilities.

His interests are exploring new technologies and deciding how to use them in the integration world.

You can view Mahindra’s blog at https://connectedcircuits.wordpress.com.

This is Mahindra’s second book he has co-authored; the first book was called SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server, and was published in 2015.

I would like to thank my co-authors, Abhishek, James, Martin, Gautam, and Ashish, who also dedicated their time in writing this book. Without them this book would not have created.The last 9 months writing this book has been a g...

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