Modernize Your Apps With API Patterns (part 3)

Azure API Management service

Azure API Management is a hybrid, portable, multi-cloud management platform for APIs, providing as core functionality the assurance of a successful API program through developer engagement, business insights, analytics, security, and protection. Each API can include one or more operations and can be added to one or more products.

How can an API be used in API Management?

The use of an API by developers is really simple and interactive. They must subscribe to a product that

includes this API, and then they can call the desired operation of the API by ensuring enforcement

of usage policies that may be in effect.

APIs provide a simplified experience when integrating applications, enabling the reuse and accessibility

of new product and service data on a universal scale.

With the increase of and, above all, the growing dependency on the publication and use of APIs, each

company must manage these APIs as first-rate assets meeting several criteria.

These criteria are the API life cycle; the diversification and complexity of the backend architecture of

API consumers; the protection, acceleration, and observation of the operation of APIs; as well as the

consumption of APIs by the different users and the securing of these hosted services that are in or

outside Azure. All these criteria are supported by Azure API Management.

Azure API Management is made up of the following components:

• API gateway

• Azure portal

• Developer portal