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Building Resilient Microservices with Azure Service Bus
Reliable messaging is the backbone of microservices architecture. Azure Service Bus provides enterprise-grade messaging, but using it effectively requires…
Messaging
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Service Broker in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Service Broker provides queuing and messaging functionality within SQL Server, allowing for decoupled, asynchronous communication between services.
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Using named pipes for interprocess communication in C#
Pipes - a communication channel between two processes. Streams - a data collection that moves from a source to a destination.
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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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Building Reliable Queue-Triggered Azure Functions
Queue-triggered Azure Functions are the pattern I recommend most often for decoupling work that doesn't need to happen synchronously. The model is simple…
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Background Processing Patterns in Azure
Use queues to handle variable load: Scale processing with multiple consumers: Process high priority items first: Coordinate long running business processes:…
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Using Azure Event Hubs with Kafka Protocol
Event Hubs with Kafka protocol offers: No Kafka cluster management Automatic scaling 99.99% SLA Native Azure integration Pay per throughput pricing Event…
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Building Real-Time Applications with Azure SignalR Service
Azure Web PubSub is the lower-level real-time service that sits alongside SignalR. Where SignalR abstracts the transport and provides a hub model for your…
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Service Bus Sessions, Transactions and DLQs in the New .NET SDK
How to use Azure Service Bus sessions, session state, transactions and dead-letter queues with the Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus 7.0 SDK, and when not to bother.
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Azure Service Bus: Queues and Topics Patterns
Service Bus is the backbone of reliable, decoupled architectures on Azure.
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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.
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Replacing a Fragile HTTP Call with an Azure Service Bus Queue
Why an HTTP call between two services drops work, and how a Service Bus queue with peek-lock, duplicate detection and a watched dead-letter queue fixes it.