Presentation delivered to the Brisbane Global Azure Bootcamp on 21 April 2018. Some slides courtesy of Paco de la Cruz, and Microsoft. Video recording available at https://youtu.be/13j0FtH5v3I

1. Serverless iPaaS
in Azure
Dan Toomey
@daniel2me
BRISBANE
Sponsors

2. Integrating the Digital Enterprise
Who am I?
• Principal Consultant, Mexia
• Microsoft Azure MVP
• MCSE, MCT, MCPD, MCTS BizTalk & Azure
• Pluralsight Author
• www.mindovermessaging.com
• @daniel2me

3. Connected – Automated - IntelligentConnected – Automated - Intelligent

4. Looking for a NEW ADVENTURE?!!
Mexia is continually on the lookout for great talent!
Key skills & roles
we look for:
o .NET Developers
o Integration Analysts
o Enterprise Developers
o Microsoft Azure
o Agile Project
Management
o Microsoft Certification
Our focus on people
and culture has won
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We refer to our
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Current range of
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Head to Mexia Careers:
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5. Acknowledgements
Paco de la Cruz
@PacoDeLaCruz

6. Evolution of the Cloud (Compute)
Pre-Cloud
B.Y.O. Servers
IaaS PaaS “Serverless”

7. What Is “Serverless”?
Servers are
fully-abstracted
Scaling is event-driven
not resource-driven
Pay only
for what you use
Availability
Speed

8. Overview of the Microsoft Azure iPaaS
API Management Azure Function Proxies
API Mediation &
Management
Messaging &
Eventing
Service Bus Event Grid
Development &
Solution Life-cycle
Visual Studio Visual Studio Team Services
Monitoring &
Management
OMS / Log Analytics
Logic Apps Management
OMS Solution
Logic Apps
Workflows
Orchestration,
Connectors,
Data Handling,
Transformation
Routing
Logic Apps
Connectors
Protocol Connectors
Hybrid & Enterprise Connectors
Azure Services Connectors
SaaS Connectors
EDI, AS2 & XML Connectors
On-premises data gateway
Serverless Compute
(Custom Code and Custom Connectors)
Azure Functions
https://blog.mexia.com.au/microsoft-azure-ipaas

9. Logic Apps Workflows
Graphically Designed & Monitored
Workflow & Orchestration engine
Triggers: Connectors and Recurrent
Actions: Connector & Workflow
JSON Code Behind (Workflow
Definition Language)

10. Logic Apps Workflows (Flow Control)
Conditions & Switch Statements
Action Run-After (Status)
For-Each & Do-Until Loops
Fan-out & Fan-in (parallel branches
and loops)
Retries (Fixed & Exponential)
Scopes
Exception Handling
Correlation & Sequential Convoys

11. Workflow Definition Language Functions
Collection contains, length, empty, intersection, union, first, last,
take, skip, join
String concat, substring, replace, guid, toLower, toUpper, indexof,
lastindexof, startswith, endswith, split
Logical equals, less, lessOrEquals, greater, greaterOrEquals, and, or,
not, if
Conversion int, string {}, json, float, bool, base64, base64ToString,
binary, dataUriToString, dataUri, uriComponent,
triggerFormDataValue, formDataValue, xml, array, etc.
Manipulation coalesce, addProperty, setProperty, removeProperty, xpath
Math add, sub, mul, div, mod, min, max, range, rand
Date utcnow, addseconds, addminutes, addhours, adddays,
formatDateTime, startOfDay, dayOfYear, etc.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/logic-apps-workflow-definition-language

12. Enterprise Messaging
VETER Pipeline
Validate
• XML
Validation
Extract
• @xpath
Transform
• XSL
Transform
Enrich
• Compose
Route
• Send
message to
topic

13. Integration Account
• Schemas
• Maps
• Trading Partners
• Agreements
• Certificates (KeyVault integration)
Extensible
• Store your own configuration
Easy to manage
• REST API, PowerShell, Portal, Visual Studio
• Secure, scalable, manageable
Schemas
Maps
TPM
Custom
Config

14. Logic Apps ~200 Connectors
Azure Connectors
Azure AD
Azure API Management
Azure App Services
Azure Application Insights
Azure Automation
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Container Instance
Azure Data Lake
Azure Data Factory
Azure Event Grid
Azure File Storage
Azure Functions
Azure Kusto
Azure Logic Apps
Azure ML
Azure Resource Manager
Azure Security Center
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure Storage Queues
Azure Table Storage
Computer Vision API
Common Data Service
Content Moderator
Cosmos DB
Custom Vision
Event Hubs
Face API
LUIS
QnA Maker
Service Bus
SQL Server
Text Analytics
Video Indexer
Other Microsoft
Connectors
Bing Maps
Bing Search
Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 for Financials
Dynamics Nav
Microsoft Forms
Microsoft Kaizala
Microsoft StaffHub
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft To-Do
Microsoft Translator
MSN Weather
Office 365 Excel
Office 365 Groups
Office 365 Outlook
Office 365 Video
OneDrive
OneDrive for Business
OneNote
Outlook Customer Manager
Outlook Tasks
Outlook.com
Project Online
Power BI
SharePoint
Skype for Business
VSTS
Yammer
3rd-Party SaaS
Connectors
10to8
Adobe Creative Cloud
Apache Impala
Appfigures
Asana
Aweber
Basecamp3
Benchmark Email
Bitbucket
Bitly
Blogger
Box
Buffer
Calendly
Campfire
Capsule CRM
Chatter
Cognito Forms
D&B Optimizer
Derdack Signl4
DocFusion
Docparser
DocuSign
Dropbox
Easy Redmine
Elastic Forms
Enadoc
Eventbrite
Facebook
FlowForma
FreshBooks
Freshdesk
Freshservice
GitHub
Gmail
Google Calendar
Google Drive
Google Sheets
Google Tasks
GoToMeeting
GoToTraining
GoToWebinar
Harvest
HelloSign
HipChat
iAuditor
Infobip
Infusionsoft
Inoreader
insightly
Instagram
Instapaper
Intercom
Jira
JotForm
Kintone
LeanKit
LiveChat
Lithium
MailChimp
Mandrill
Marketing Content Hub
Metatask
Muhimbi PDF
MySQL
Nexmo
Oracle Database
Pager Duty
Parserr
Paylocity
Pinterest
Pipedrive
Pitney Bowes Data Validation
Pivotal Tracker
Planner
Plivo
Plumsail Documents
Plumsail Forms
Plumsail SP
PostgreSQL
Redmine
Salesforce
SendGrid
ServiceNow
Slack
Smartsheet
SparkPost
Stripe
SurveyMonkey
Tago
Teamwork Projects
Teradata
Todoist
Toodledo
Trello
Twilio
Twitter
Typeform
UserVoice
Vimeo
WebMerge
WordPress
Workday HCM
Workday Finance
Wunderlist
YouTube
Zendesk
Zoho
Protocol Connectors
FTP
HTTP / HTTP with Swagger
HTTP with Azure AD
RSS
SFTP
SMTP
SOAP-to-REST
SOAP pass-through
Webhook
Hybrid & Enterprise
Connectors
BizTalk
DB2
File System
Informix
MQ
MySQL
Oracle DB
PostgreSQL
REST
SAP
SharePoint
SOAP
SQL Server
Teradata
XML, Text, EDI, and AS2
Connectors
AS2
EDIFACT
Flat File
Liquid Templates
X12
XML Validation and Transform
https://blog.mexia.com.au/microsoft-azure-ipaas

15. On-premises data gateway
On-premises On-premises
data gateway
SQL
File System SOAP REST SharePointSAPBizTalk
Managed
Service Bus Relay
On-premises data gateway
Azure Configuration
Logic Apps
Installed on a VM
(on-premises or Azure VNET)
Supports High-Availability
Azure
Outgress communication via
Service Bus Relay
Encrypted Channel
Encrypted Credentials
https://blog.mexia.com.au/microsoft-azure-ipaas
IBM MQ
MySql Oracle PostgreSQL TeradataInformixIBM DB2

16. Serverless Compute: Azure Functions
Custom code for the integration solutions (complex logic)
Code-based custom connectors
Access resources on-prem when hosted on a VNET
Sync calls via HTTPS
Async calls via Service Bus or Event Grid

17. Azure Functions

18. Logic Apps vs Azure Functions
Serverless workflows / integration orchestrations
Graphically implemented (WDL / JSON)
~200 Connectors
No VNET Support (ATM)
Stateful
Azure-hosted only
Serverless code-based nanoservices
C#, F#, Node.js, PowerShell, Python, etc
Different Trigger, Input and Output bindings
VNET support and also Private PaaS (ASE)
Stateless + Stateful with Durable Functions
Azure + Azure Stack + portable runtime

19. Messaging: Azure Service Bus

20. Service Bus Queues vs. Topics
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-bus-messaging/service-bus-fundamentals-hybrid-solutions

21. Eventing: Azure Event Grid

22. Manage all events in one place

23. Ensure reliability and performance in your apps

24. API Mediation: API Management

25. Façade and front door
Developer portal
Azure portal
Gateway
Publish
Mediate
Consume
contosoapi-foo.azurewebsites.com

26. contosoapi-foo.azurewebsites.comcontosoapi-bar.azurewebsites.com
Façade and front door
Gateway
Mediate
contoso.azure-api.net/fooapi.contoso.com/foo

27. Policies

28. Development and CI/CD: Visual Studio & VSTS
https://blog.mexia.com.au/preparing-azure-logic-apps-for-cicd

29. Monitoring & Management: OMS & Log Analytics

30. Logic Apps OMS Management Solution

31. Custom Activity Monitoring and Queries
https://blog.mexia.com.au/business-activity-monitoring-on-azure-logic-apps
https://blog.mexia.com.au/publishing-custom-queries-of-logic-apps-execution-logs

32. Logic Apps 12 month lookback
+ ~ 80 Connectors!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAJO2dnny74

33. What’s coming up next?
Isolated (Private) Logic Apps
More designer improvements
Trigger State Failover for HA
Connectors: SAP ECC, Azure Data Factory, Oracle EBS, etc.
Testability improvements
And more: aka.ms/logicappsroadmap
Ask and vote: aka.ms/logicappswish

34. Additional Resources
Twitter @logicappsio
Documentation aka.ms/logicappsdocs
Blog aka.ms/logicappsblog
Live Web Cast aka.ms/logicappslive
Release Update aka.ms/logicappsupdate
Feature request aka.ms/logicappswish
Roadmap aka.ms/logicappsroadmap
Demo aka.ms/logicappsdemo
Mexia’s Logic Apps Blog Posts blog.mexia.com.au/tag/logic-apps

35. Have a conversation with
one of our integration
experts!
enquiries@mexia.com.au