Dead-lettering and handling poison messages
Dead letters and poison messages are essential components in many messaging systems and serve as fundamental feedback in the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). In the world of message processing, a poison message is a message that can’t be dealt with because something is wrong with its content. Continuously attempting to handle these problematic messages can use up resources and potentially disrupt the processing of other messages that are perfectly fine. Because of this, it’s critical to handle these messages correctly to ensure the dependability of our applications. In Azure Event Hubs, this task is achieved through a procedure known as dead-lettering.
Dead-lettering
Messages that can’t be processed are moved to a separate dead-letter queue where they can be reviewed and handled accordingly. While Event Hubs itself does not have native support for dead-lettering, you can implement a similar concept in your...
