Designing API-First Enterprise Architectures on Azure: A guide for architects and developers to expedite digital transformation with API-led architectures

Subhajit Chatterjee

Aug 2021 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Innovate at scale through well-architected API-led products that drive personalized, predictive, and adaptive customer experiencesKey Features

• Strategize your IT investments by modeling enterprise solutions with an API-centric approach
• Build robust and reliable API platforms to boost business agility and omnichannel delivery
• Create digital value chains through the productization of your APIs

Book DescriptionAPI-centric architectures are foundational to delivering omnichannel experiences for an enterprise. With this book, developers will learn techniques to design loosely coupled, cloud-based, business-tier interfaces that can be consumed by a variety of client applications. Using real-world examples and case studies, the book helps you get to grips with the cloudbased design and implementation of reliable and resilient API-centric solutions. Starting with the evolution of enterprise applications, you'll learn how API-based integration architectures drive digital transformation. You'll then learn about the important principles and practices that apply to cloud-based API architectures and advance to exploring the different architecture styles and their implementation in Azure. This book is written from a practitioner's point of view, so you'll discover ideas and practices that have worked successfully in various customer scenarios. By the end of this book, you'll be able to architect, design, deploy, and monetize your API solutions in the Azure cloud while implementing best practices and industry standards.What you will learn

• Explore the benefits of API-led architecture in an enterprise
• Build highly reliable and resilient, cloud-based, API-centric solutions
• Plan technical initiatives based on Well-Architected Framework principles
• Get to grips with the productization and management of your API assets for value creation
• Design high-scale enterprise integration platforms on the Azure cloud
• Study the important principles and practices that apply to cloud-based API architectures

Who this book is for

This book is for solution architects, developers, engineers, DevOps professionals, and IT decision-makers who are responsible for designing and developing large distributed systems. Familiarity with enterprise solution architectures and cloud-based design will help you to comprehend the concepts covered in the book easily.

About the author

Subhajit Chatterjee has a Bachelor of Engineering and a graduate diploma on Information Technology. He has also taken up many online certifications that has helped him learn and grow as a software engineering professional. He has close to two decades of exposure to designing, implementing, and managing software development projects, using Microsoft & Open-Source technologies. He is a seasoned Engineering leader and has delivered many large and complex projects in Azure, IoT, Enterprise Integrations, Web Applications and Mobility space. He loves to solve problems and has had the privilege to work with customers across the globe. He is passionate about sharing his learnings with the community and enjoys coaching and mentoring his team members.