Exploring API Center: A Deep Dive with Julia Casper

In this episode of Azure On Air, Michael Stephenson sits down with Kent Weare from the Azure Logic Apps product team live at the INTEGRATE 2025 to explore one of the most exciting evolutions in Azure integration: AI-powered agents.

In this episode of Azure on Air, Lex sits down with Dan Boss, Technology leader at Valorem Reply, to explore why integration platforms are no longer just "middleware" - they're essential for solving data chaos, governance, and AI adoption in modern enterprises.

In this episode of Azure on Air, we sit down with James Reed from West Coast Cloud to talk about how MSPs and CSPs are actually managing Azure costs - not with another dashboard, but with real tools and automation that clients can trust.

The video features an interview with Mattias Logdberg, a specialist in Azure integration and security, at the INTEGRATE summit. Mattias discusses his session on the challenges of iPaaS solutions in the context of Azure integration and implementation. He shares his experiences and insights on the importance of understanding networking and security in cloud computing, particularly in the context of Logic Apps and API Management.

Steef Jan shares his experience with migrating on-premise systems to the cloud, specifically with Azure Integration Services. He talks about his journey of modernizing a retailer's integration platform, which involved migrating 50-60 interfaces from an on-premise solution to Azure. This episode also discusses the challenges of migrating large BizTalk installations to the cloud and the importance of having a roadmap for on-premise footprints. He shares his final thoughts on the importance of evolving and keeping track of changes in the cloud platform.

In this episode of Azure on Air from the INTEGRATE Summit, Riccardo Viglianisi shares the importance of quality practices in development, the role of testing frameworks, integration experiences in modern cloud environments, and the ever-evolving nature of software development. It sets the tone for a technical discussion that's forward-thinking and rooted in practical advice for developers.

This conversation from the INTEGRATE expert voices unplugged series from Azure on Air discusses the importance of a security-first mindset in software development, particularly in the context of Azure and cloud computing. The conversation explores the role of tools like API management and managed identities in ensuring secure access to resources and the need to consider security at every stage of development. The speakers also highlight the importance of observability and monitoring to track potential security threats and ensure that services are performing optimally. Watch to learn more about best practices for securing your Azure environment.

In this episode, we dive into the evolution of Frends, its seamless migration path from BizTalk, and how it empowers organizations to achieve agility and speed in their integration and automation journeys.

This episode of "INTEGRATE expert voices - Unplugged" from the Azure on Air podcast, features Julia Casper from Microsoft's API Management team. API Center is a new product from Microsoft that aims to help organizations manage their APIs more effectively. In this conversation, Julia shares her background and history at Microsoft and then dives into the details of the API center. She explains how it can help organizations inventory and manage their APIs and discusses some of the challenges that the API center is designed to solve. If you're interested in API management, this is a great conversation to check out.

Andrei Kamenev, a member of the API management team at Microsoft, discusses the relationship between generative AI and API management. He explains that API management can be important in an architecture that uses generative AI, as it helps to solve challenges such as token usage, rate limiting, and load balancing.