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Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

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

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

Partitioned queues/topics


Without partitions, a queue or topic is handled by a single message broker and stored in a single messaging store, which can constrain performance. Using partitions, a queue or topic can be spread across multiple brokers and stores, thereby providing a higher throughput rate than a single message broker and store. These partitions contain all the features of a no partitioned queue or topic, such as transactions and sessions.

When messages arrive at the queue or topic, they are distributed in a round-robin fashion to all the fragments of a partitioned queue or topic if no partition key has been defined.

To control which fragment receives what message, the properties SessionId, PartitionKey, and MessageId may be used as partition keys. All messages received using the same partition key will be processed by that specific fragment. If that fragment is temporarily unavailable, an error will be returned.

When a client reads a message from a partitioned queue or topic, the...