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Service Bus HA with paired namespaces
Azure Service Bus is one of the oldest cloud services on Azure. As any service living in the cloud, it grows, iterates, and changes. Among various features that the service has, there's one that could...
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Azure Functions to make audit queue and auditors happy
Using NServiceBus on Azure allows the best of two worlds – robust and reliable messaging framework on top of excellent Azure services. Azure services and any other cloud provider as well have strict...
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Bend Message Deduplication on Azure Service Bus to Your Will
Duplicates detection functionality provided by Azure Service Bus can automatically remove duplicate messages sent to a queue or topic. Deduplication is always based on the value of the MessageId...
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Notifications with MyGet and Azure Functions
If you're doing .NET development, you're probably familiar with NuGet packages. You might have also heard about MyGet service that offers an excellent package management. But have you looked at the...
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Azure Service Bus Client Performance Counters
Identifying issues is never trivial. It is even harder when the problem is hidden, and there's are no logs or traces to go through. Application using Azure Service Bus started to throw an exceeded...
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The secret brotherhood of the message counts
When working with Azure Service Bus, message count is expected to report how many messages are found in the queue. Only if life was that simple. In the real world, things a bit more complicated. Let's...
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Azure Service Bus Message: Wanted Dead or Alive
Running NServiceBus on Azure sometimes can be challenging. Take for example the Azure Service Bus transport. Every queue has additional queues that could contain either dead-lettered messages as a...
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Monitoring all Dead Letter Queues. Yes, multiple.
In my previous post The secret brotherhood of the message counts I talked about sub-queues any Azure Service Bus queue has. For a queue those where:queue/$DeadLetterQueuequeue/$Transferand...
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Hello Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus
If you've missed the news, a new Azure Service Bus client is emerging on the horizon.This client is a significant development under the umbrella of multiple changes taking place in the Microsoft camp....
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Azure Service Bus Plugins
For a very long time Azure Service Bus client WindowsAzure.ServiceBus/ was a black box. When it came to the customization of the message payload, it would allow choosing on serialization, and that's...
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Sending large messages without exposing the storage account
ServiceBus.AttachmentPlugin is an Azure Service Bus plugin to help with messages exceeding the allowed maximum size. Sender would store the message body as a Azure Storage blob and receive would read...
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Partitioning and de-duplication
Recently, I've received a comment on an older post about message de-duplication that was somewhat peculiar. An important note here - watch out for partitioning. I basically ran the same code, but...
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Reading Azure Service Bus Metrics
I always found it interesting that most of us start counting earlier than we can read or spell our own names. Almost as if we are predispositioned to count first. Yet numbers can become very difficult...
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Azure Service Bus with Managed Service Identity
Managed Server Identity (MSI)* is a feature of Azure Active Directory (AAD) to allow applications in Azure authenticate to cloud services without managing credentials in your code. Integration with MSI...
View ArticleAzure EventGrid testing with Azure Relay
Azure Service Bus can now integrate with Azure Event Grid. Great news! Currently, it's only possible with Azure Service Bus premium tier, but soon standard tier will get the ability as well. Also, at...
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Azure Service Bus Subscriptions with Correlation Filters
Azure Service Bus pub/sub is implemented using topics and subscriptions. Messages are published to topics and copied over to subscription queues with matching criteria. Criteria are declared using...
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What you pay is what you get
"What you pay is what you get."This age-old wisdom applied to cloud services even more than anywhere. Take Azure Service Bus for example. The service offers 3 tiers that provide a different level of...
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Processing Azure EventGrid events with NServiceBus
What’s EventGrid and why it’s important?EventGrid helps with creation of event-based systems. The service manages routing of events from various source to the subscribers. Its high throughput and...
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Processing Azure Services EventGrid events with NServiceBus
In the previous post Processing Azure EventGrid events with NServiceBus, I showed how to process custom events emitted to EventGrid using NServiceBus.In this post, I’ll focus on events emitted by...
View ArticleDealing with large Azure Service Bus messages (part 1)
Whenever you deal with messages, message size is always a question you'll have to answer and address. If you're interested some of the factors going into message size and high-level options to tackle...
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