Lessons Learned Ingesting REST APIs in ADF

Todd McDermid

Azure Data Factory offers a breadth of connectors to pull data into your estate. There may be a connector specifically made for your source – but given the bounty of startups and multiple API endpoints per service, frequently there is not. There is a jack-of-all-trades in ADF’s toolbox that’s meant to deliver – the REST source.
A demo heavy session shows the basics of connecting to different forms of REST APIs, dealing with authorization, pagination, timeouts, rate limiting, troubleshooting, and incremental load patterns.