Summary

Message-based services hosted in Azure implement asynchronous messaging and competing consumers patterns, which help to communicate between services in cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premises approaches. Messages always guarantee that the delivery and sequence of delivery are not changed. The message processing supports batches and transactions but is not ideal for high-performance loads. Meanwhile, the message queue publishers and subscribers can be horizontally scaled to process the messages at a higher speed.

For instance, Azure Queue Storage was introduced in this chapter. It enables you to save costs if your application does not need to leverage enterprise features. Furthermore, Service Bus offers a reliable, scalable, and adjustable service that provides you with enterprise-grade capabilities for a reasonable price. You learned the details about each of the services and learned how to communicate with both services via code. Now, in the exam, you can recommend the...