3.1.3 Azure App Services
A fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web applications.
Key Features:
- Supports multiple languages and frameworks.
- Native integration with Azure DevOps, GitHub, Docker Hub and very streamlined, supports continuous deployment and seamless workflows.
- Can scale up or down manually or automatically, hosted and managed in Microsoft Datacenters around the globe, ensuring availability and responsivity.
Benefits:
- Ease of use, since its platform managed(PaaS).
- Fully managed platform. meaning its patched and maintained automatically, which improves productivity.
- Integrated services. Offers easy integration with other azure services such as Azure SQL databases, Azure managed instances.
Use Cases:
- Used in web apps
- Mobile apps
- RESTful APIs
It is used to meet the needs of contemporary developers.
A RESTful API is a way for different software applications to talk to each other over the internet in a simple and standardized way.
Here’s a simple breakdown:
- REST (Representational State Transfer): It’s a set of rules for designing APIs. The goal is to make the communication between systems straightforward and predictable.
- API (Application Programming Interface): This is like a menu that lists what a system can do and how you can ask it to do those things.