Advanced features of Azure Service Bus
We have already covered some of the basics of the Azure Service Bus, such as SDK, the most crucial concepts, and security considerations. Now, we will focus a little bit on more advanced use cases, such as dead lettering, performance, sessions, and transactions. All those topics are crucial when developing a reliable and important service integrating many different applications and systems. Also, remember to look at the Azure Service Bus examples in the Further reading section, as this points to a GitHub repository where you can find many different use cases and concepts when using this service.
Dead lettering
In general, dead lettering means that there are messages in a queue considered dead (because there was no receiver code logic interested in pulling them), and you have two options to proceed, as follows:
- Delete them permanently
- Push them to an additional queue, named a dead...