Azure Event Hub is one of the best solutions for introducing an entry point with almost limitless throughput. It's designed for big data workloads and is able to process millions of messages per second. It offers a very simple configuration, and thanks to the available SDK, you can easily adjust it to almost any solution developed in the cloud. It also integrates natively with other Azure components, making creating a whole platform hosted in the cloud a breeze.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Working efficiently with Azure Event Hub
- Different concepts such as publishers, partitions, throughput units, or consumer groups
- Azure Event Hub security concepts
- Azure Event Hub capture feature