Logic apps as backends for Data platform APIs

APIs are hosted, published, and deployed through Azure’s API Management services.

Every API has a frontend and a backend. The frontend is the part of the application that receives input from a client. The backend is the part of the application that processes information like processing a payment or looking up customer information. In most cases, the backend also returns the result of its processing to the frontend so it can be passed back to the client.

Frontend

Defined in Azure API Management services, the frontend is the part of the API that receives, documents, and orders the different inputs – to then send them to the backend. It contains the various inputs: Headers, Query parameters, or Template parameters, as well as different definitions giving information on response or request format.

Backend

The backend is the part of the API that operates actions. It is a function that threat the information and does one or multiple tasks before giving a response. In Azure, the backend links to another service. A Function App or a Logic app can stand as the backend of an API.

In the data platform, the majority of backend redirect to Logic app.