From the course: Azure for Developers: API Management

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What is Azure APIM?

What is Azure APIM?

- [Instructor] Do you want to safely upgrade your APIs to a new version without announcing a downtime for your existing clients? Or maybe you want to introduce a new security profile for your APIs, or improve the performance of your APIs with caching without touching the backend implementation of your services. Azure API< is here to help you to achieve all of these. Azure API< is an API management service. It provides a centralized location to manage a wide variety of APIs. APIs may be written in different languages like .NET, Java, PHP, or Node. They may be hosted in different servers like Windows, Linux, Mac, or in different data centers across the world. Any web application, mobile, or other device can access these APIs via Azure APIM with a single access point. Azure APIM's main components are API Gateway, Management Plane, and the Developer Portal. The API Gateway receives client requests and routes them to the…

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