Bring your data to your code with Azure's Data API Builder

"Azure is now so big it's hard to keep on top of all its features, let alone drill down into its ever-growing line of developer tools. That's not surprising; in the past two decades or so, it's become the place where Microsoft builds its own and its customer-facing products. That internal developer focus eventually brings tools to the rest of us, as internal APIs and services mature and become products themselves, opening up to the wider world."

"One area where this process is obvious is Azure's many different service APIs, which often give language- and platform-independent ways to build Azure services into your code. These cover everything from storage to artificial intelligence and provide tools for interacting with the underlying Azure platform. So many APIs, so little time Azure's many different platform services can be a challenge for developers, especially when each service has its own APIs and SDKs."

Microsoft's declarative API design tool for data runs anywhere a Docker container can be executed. Azure has grown into a vast platform hosting both Microsoft-built and customer-facing products. Numerous service APIs offer language- and platform-independent ways to integrate storage, AI, and platform features into code. The proliferation of distinct APIs and SDKs creates complexity and portability challenges for developers. Consolidation toward a common API grammar and higher-level services aims to simplify code, promote cross-platform portability, and ease transitions between services. Projects like .NET Aspire, Dapr, and Azure Fabric seek to abstract cloud-native complexity and unify development models across services.

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