Summary
In this chapter, we covered Azure Stream Analytics, a service for processing streams of data in near real time. You have learned what the available inputs and outputs are and how to configure them. Furthermore, you were able to write your first query and check how the query language works for analyzing and processing incoming events. If you need a PaaS that can quickly read and transform events and push them to many different Azure services, Azure Stream Analytics is for you. Always consider its capabilities, such as being able to perform a checkpoint and replay data, and make sure that you follow the documentation when building a query. This contains lots of helpful examples that will allow you to quickly start with logic and then extend it depending on your needs.
In the next chapter, we will go through Azure Service Bus, an enterprise-class messaging solution that is, in fact, the foundation of Azure Event Hubs, which we discussed previously...
