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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers in the market currently, and also holds the second highest market share after AWS. Azure has a sophisticated set of services that will help you build fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. Hands-On Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through multiple PaaS services available in Azure, including App Services, Functions, and Service Fabric, and explain in detail how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. You will learn about how to maximize your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, and even search engines such as Azure Search. In the concluding chapters, this book covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager. By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies, which will help make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Connecting services through Azure Event Grid

Now that you know something about what Azure Event Grid is and how it works, we will try to test it and create a working solution. We will start by creating an instance in Azure Portal and configuring it to accept and route events. You will see also what the schema of an event is and how to leverage it so you can send custom events that will be handled by Event Grid.

Creating Azure Event Grid in Azure Portal

To get started with Azure Event Grid, do the following in Azure Portal:

  1. Click on + Create a resource and search for Event Grid. From the list, select Event Grid Topic and click Create.
  2. You will see a really simple form, where you have to enter the name of an instance of a service...