Event Hubs architecture

There are three main components of the Event Hubs architecture: The Event Producers, the Event Hub, and the Event Consumer, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 12.4: Event Hubs architecture

Event Producers generate events and send them to the Event Hub. The Event Hub stores the ingested events and provides that data to the Event Consumer. The Event Consumer is whatever is interested in those events, and it connects to the Event Hub to fetch the data.

Event hubs cannot be created without an Event Hubs namespace. The Event Hubs namespace acts as a container and can host multiple event hubs. Each Event Hubs namespace provides a unique REST-based endpoint that is consumed by clients to send data to Event Hubs. This namespace is the same namespace that is needed for Service Bus artifacts, such as topics and queues.

The connection string of an Event...