Developing message-based solutions

1. You’re developing a message consumer for Azure Queue Storage. The consumer runs on the App Service WebJobs platform in Azure. You need to implement autoscaling rules to scale out the consumer instances horizontally when the total amount of messages in the queue increases by 100 messages.

What is the name of the metric you should use in the configuration of criteria for scaling?

1. Approximate message count
2. Count of active messages in the queue
3. Completed messages
4. Incoming messages

2. You develop a consumer application to process money transfer transactions from a bank. Each transaction is delivered in a single message. All generated transactions need to be processed in sequence. Losing any transactions is unacceptable. The solution should provide maximum tolerance for possible connections lost by the application.

What service do you recommend for implementing transaction processing?

1. Event...