Developing Message-Based Solutions

From this chapter, you will learn how the messaging pattern can improve the reliability and availability of your solution in Azure. You will learn how to leverage the Azure Queue Storage and Azure Service Bus messaging services. You will be introduced to the publisher-subscriber concept and learn the difference between queues and topics. You will get to know how to provision, configure, and integrate messaging services with other Azure services, for instance, Azure App Service and Azure Functions. You also will be able to provision, connect, and manage the services from code. Furthermore, you will learn about the advantages and limitations of the respective services and be able to describe the scenarios where messaging services should be used instead of event-based services.

We’ll finish off this chapter with an introduction to DevOps. We’ll step away from the technical topics and discuss what DevOps actually means beyond being a...