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Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
Book Image

Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is currently one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers thanks to its sophisticated set of services for building fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. This second edition of Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through the various PaaS services available in Azure, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure SQL Databases, showing you how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. Throughout the book, you’ll discover ways to enhance your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, containerized solutions, and even search engines such as Azure Cognitive Search. That’s not all!! The book also covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door. By the end of this Azure book, you’ll be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies to make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
1
Part 1: PaaS and Containers
8
Part 2: Serverless and Reactive Architecture
14
Part 3: Storage, Messaging, and Monitoring
22
Part 4: Performance, Scalability, and Maintainability

Scaling Azure Event Hubs

As mentioned earlier, Azure Event Hubs is based on TUs. These tell you how many messages Azure Event Hubs can handle. For 1 TU, you will have the following available:

  • Up to 1 megabyte (MB)/1,000 events per second for ingress
  • Up to 2 MB/4,096 events for egress

Once exceeded, your instance of Azure Event Hubs will start failing by returning HTTP 429 status codes.

What we have just said is true only if you are using the Standard tier for your Azure Event Hubs instance. When provisioned using the Premium tier, the capacity of that service is defined using PUs. While much more expensive, a Premium instance of Azure Event Hubs with 1 PU can handle 5-10 MB of ingress and 10-20 MB for egress.

In Azure Event Hubs, you can handle all messages in parallel using partitions. The more partitions you have, the more consumers you can host. Generally speaking, this directly affects your ability to handle more traffic. If each consumer can work on its...