Is LogicApps right for my integration: Introduction to Logic Apps(Part 1).
LinkedIn has always been my number one social media where I got information about different things ranging from the Business to Technology to Information and I want to get a live update immediately someone sent an update to me and I can quickly respond to the person. My coding skills were not that good, In my research, I discovered that LogicApps could help me solve this issues, So, anytime someone comments on my post, I can quickly get a notification and respond to the person that commented on my post. Yay!!!. As much as you can use LogicApps for your daily activities, you can also use it for your enterprise company.
So what’s LogicApps, LogicApps is the Azure Integration Platform as a Server solution from Microsoft. It aims to automate business processes connecting to systems that exist both in the cloud and on-premises, by orchestrating calls to system APIs, using a vast set of out-of-the-box connectors. LogicApps also allows you to use our own APIs and legacy web services, leveraging your existing services and APIs ecosystem. The aim is to go from development to production in a few simple, reproducible steps. Microsoft is strongly investing in this technology, introducing many new connectors in line with the demands of the integration requirements of enterprises.
Azure LogicApps is one of the backbones of serverless architecture in Azure. They both allow developers to quickly create and deploy code to the cloud that needs to be scalable, lightweight and fast. LogicApps are not only about integration and orchestration, but also connectivity to other services. These services can be Azure-based, 3rd party solutions such as OneDrive and Dropbox; They can even be a custom-built application running on-premises such as a web API. Yo can connect apps, data and devices anywhere -on-premises or in the cloud — with one of the cloud largest ecosystem to SaaS and cloud-based connectors that includes Salesforce, Office 365, Twitter, Dropbox, Google Services and more.
Benefits
LogicApps provide significant benefits when it comes to creating cloud-based workflows.
Cost
LogicApps have no upfront setup costs. They also have no ongoing costs or infrastructure costs. The pricing works on the basis of consumption. This means that only you are only charged for executed actions. For a DropBox connector that is configured with a “File modified” trigger, there will be no cost unless there are modified files that trigger the LogicApps execution. It’s also extremely scalable because each trigger will instantiate a new LogicApps. Consequently, multiple concurrent triggers will force multiple concurrent instances of the same LogicApps to run: This ensures that everything is processed in a timely manner.
Summary
There are various integration scenarios, and usually, multiple ways to design and implement that scenario. Until the launch of LogicApps, cloud and hybrid integration scenarios were harder to implement using Microsoft technologies. There was no easy to adopt workflow or orchestration capability. LogicApps now fills that gap, allowing you to implement those scenarios and tap into a wide range of supporting technologies. Its ever-growing connectors library allows you to easily connect to leading SaaS applications, but if your SaaS application of choice is not listed, you can still connect to it using common HTTP calls.
The next article, we will be talking about the LogicApps workflows and how to deploy and integrate a wide variety of cloud and hybrid scenarios.
