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Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

By : Gyanendra Kumar Gautam, Ashish Bhambhani, Abhishek Kumar, James Corbould, Mahindra Morar, Martin Abbott
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Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

By: Gyanendra Kumar Gautam, Ashish Bhambhani, Abhishek Kumar, James Corbould, Mahindra Morar, Martin Abbott

Overview of this book

Any software developers, architects, and technical managers lookng to learn about Azure IaaS essentials need look no further. This book is ideal for Microsoft Enterprise developers, DevOps or any IT professionals looking to connect cloud-based and on-premises systems with Azure.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Robust Cloud Integration with Azure
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

An introduction to Event Hubs


Event Hubs are primarily designed to ingest large volumes of event and telemetry data in a high throughput manner from a variety of devices and services. They are similar in principle to Azure Queues and Azure Topics but with different characteristics and use cases. Although Azure Queues and Topics are used for enterprise messaging scenarios in which transaction support, dead-lettering, ordered delivery, and guaranteed delivery are of prime concerns, Event Hubs are biased toward very high throughput and event processing scenarios such as stream analytics.

Security in Event Hubs

When a device sends data to an Event Hub, it is normally to a virtual endpoint address defined by the publisher. A publisher requires a valid token to be passed with each message, which is a combination of a shared access signature (SAS) and a publisher name. The publisher name is normally the device's unique identifier.

Although it is not recommended, you can directly connect to the Event...