In this session, Vishnu Balachandran talks about API Apps and how you can use API Apps in Azure. Vishnu introduces the concept of Azure first and then shows a demo of how you can use API Apps in Azure.

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2. Introduction to

3. What is Microsoft Azure
• It’s a Open and flexible cloud platform.
• It empowers you to Build, Deploy and Manage Applications across
Global Network.
• Build you applications using a wide verity of supported Languages,
tools and Frameworks.
• Easy integration of your on premise applications with the cloud
applications

7. Azure API APPS

8. What are API’s
• An API is an application programming interface (API)
• A Web API is a programmatic interface that exposes one or more
endpoints.
• The communications are done in request-response fashion.
• What you send to a Web API can be called as a Payload, it could be a
json, xml etc.
• For all the modern API’s the response will be a JSON or XML.

9. What are API Apps
• API apps in Azure App Service offer features that make it easier to
develop, host, and consume APIs in the cloud and on-premises.
• Out of the box you will get features like
• Enterprise grade security
• Simple access control
• Automatic SDK generation -
• Hybrid connectivity

10. • It’s easy to migrate your existing API’s to Azure API apps.
• Swagger API metadata makes it easier for various client to consume it.
• Authenticate access to the API with no changes to the code. Out of the
box Azure API Apps supports
• Azure Active Directory
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google
• Microsoft Account

11. • Visual Studio provides great support for creating, deploying,
consuming and debugging API Apps with the installation of Azure
SDK.

12. Thank You