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Building Event-Driven Architectures with Azure Event Grid and Functions
Event-driven architecture requires careful design but delivers superior scalability and resilience for distributed systems.
Event-Driven
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Microsoft Fabric Data Activator: Event-Driven Data Alerts
Data Activator monitors data streams and triggers actions based on conditions you define. It connects to Power BI reports, Eventstreams, and Fabric data…
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Event-Driven AI Integration: Connecting AI to Business Events
Event-driven AI enables intelligent, automated responses to business events. Start with high-value events where AI can add immediate value.
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Event-Driven AI: Building Reactive Intelligent Systems
Event-driven AI enables responsive, intelligent systems. Start with simple event handlers and evolve to complex orchestration as needed.
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LLMs on an Event Hubs Stream: Tiered Triage with Azure Functions
How to put Azure OpenAI inside an Event Hubs pipeline without stalling partitions: batch triggers, a cheap triage tier, structured outputs, fail-closed errors.
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Jobs in Azure Container Apps: Event-Driven Batch Processing
Jobs in Container Apps provide flexible batch processing capabilities. Tomorrow, I will cover Dapr 1.11 updates.
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Event-Driven Architecture Patterns for Modern Applications
Event-driven architecture in 2021 moved from architectural pattern to practical implementation. The tools support it, the patterns are proven, and the…
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The Serverless Evolution: Where We Landed in 2021
Serverless in 2021 proved it's not just for simple APIs. Complex, stateful, event-driven applications are running successfully in production. The technology…
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Cosmos DB Change Feed in Production: Failures, Leases and Lag
Running Cosmos DB change feed consumers in production: Functions trigger vs processor, poison batches, dead-lettering, idempotency and lag estimation.
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Designing Domain Events for Azure Event Grid Custom Topics
How to design the event contract, topic boundaries, filters and consumers for Azure Event Grid custom topics, and which .NET SDK to use in January 2021.
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Cosmos DB Change Feed: Functions Trigger or Change Feed Processor?
How to choose between the Azure Functions trigger and the .NET SDK v3 change feed processor, and the leases, retries and delete gaps that decide it.
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Azure Event Grid as Reactive Glue: Delivery, Retries and Dead-Letters
When to pick Event Grid over Service Bus or Event Hubs, and how to publish, handle, filter and dead-letter events so failed deliveries aren't silently lost.