Dealing with large Azure Service Bus messages (part 2)
This is a follow-up post discussing how to deal with large messages. This time, I'm looking at implementing Claim Check pattern in a simple manner, using Azure Storage Queues, which is powering Azure...
View ArticleAzure Messaging Crossroads - Techorama NL edition
This week had an opportunity to present at the great Techorama conference. This year it was hosted in the Netherlands, executed by Dutch and Belgian teams. For a first time conference, I was amazed how...
View ArticleAzure Service Bus auto-forwarding
The principle of the auto-forwarding feature is simple and straightforward. Thought use cases are not always obvious, and implementation sometimes can get a twist. If you'd like to learn more, read all...
View ArticleTransactional messaging with Azure Functions and Service Bus
Azure Functions basicsAzure Functions design is a modular design. It consists of - Mandatory trigger - Function logic - Optional one or more output bindingsTriggers and output bindings can be of...
View ArticleUnderstanding Azure Service Bus Prefetch
Working with a remote broker can be a challenge at times. The latency caused by the roundtrip to the broker to fetch a single message can exceed the processing time of that message. To help with this...
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure Events Wishlist
Azure Event Grid is by far not a new kid on the block. Announced in January 2018, the service promised to get us closer to the event-driven architecture and replace the cumbersome polling for...
View ArticleThe future of Azure Service Bus .NET SDK
The past and the current of the SDKThe Azure Service Bus SDK for .NET is one of the oldest Azure SDKs. Its first public appearance as a NuGet package WindowsAzure.ServiceBus goes back to 2011. Back...
View ArticleAzure Service Bus SDK - ServiceBusClient
Note: SDK Track 2 is still a preview and subject to API changes.Table of contentsThe future of Azure Service Bus .NET SDKServiceBusClientServiceBusSenderServiceBusReceiverSafe BatchingEntry pointBack...
View ArticleAzure Service Bus SDK - Sending ServiceBusMessage(s)
Note: SDK Track 2 is still a preview and subject to API changes.Table of contentsThe future of Azure Service Bus .NET SDKServiceBusClientServiceBusSenderServiceBusReceiverSafe BatchingWhat's a...
View ArticleAzure Service Bus SDK - Receiving ServiceBusReceivedMessage(s)
Note: SDK Track 2 is still a preview and subject to API changes.Table of contentsThe future of Azure Service Bus .NET SDKServiceBusClientServiceBusSenderServiceBusReceiverSafe BatchingSent message vs...
View ArticleService Bus Explorer in Azure Portal
If you ever used the Service Bus Explorer (SBE) tool, you can appreciate how handy it is to be able to explore the namespace, inspect individual entities, and perform CRUD operation. It's also...
View ArticleAzure Service Bus SDK - Safe Batching
Note: SDK Track 2 is still a preview and subject to API changes.Table of contentsThe future of Azure Service Bus .NET SDKServiceBusClientServiceBusSenderServiceBusReceiverSafe BatchingUnsafe...
View ArticleDeploying an Azure WebJob with GitHub Actions
WebJobs are a hidden gem within Azure App Service. While it's coupled to the web application, one of the neat tricks is to turn it into a worker service for continuous background processing. Arguably,...
View ArticleEvent Grid advanced filters and value pooling
Event Grid subscriptions filtering offers advanced filtering that allows data payload attributes filtering. Or filtering on the payload. This is a feature you cannot have with Azure Service Bus, for...
View ArticleGoodbye Azure Storage Emulator. Hello Azurite!
Why Azurite?For a long time, I was using Storage Emulator to execute some verification tests for ServiceBus.AttachmentPlugin project. And I'd continue using it if not a few inconveniences it had.Needs...
View ArticleCosmosDB - container provisioning throttling
When working with CosmosDB, you're quickly accustomed to the idea that each operation costs a certain amount of RUs. And when there's not enough RUs, the request gets throttled. There's a capacity...
View ArticleUser Secrets, the human-readable version
When developing locally, there are many ways to store secrets locally without risk of receiving a GitHub notification about leaked keys and secrets. Environment variables, local files excluded from...
View ArticleAutomatically create Service Bus trigger queue for Azure Function
Azure Functions are great. Take HTTP triggered Function. You make a request, it's passed into the Function code, the code is executed, and that's it. Simple. What does it take to deploy an...
View ArticleAutomatically provision NServiceBus Service Bus Function endpoint topology
In the previous post, Automatically create Service Bus trigger queue for Azure Function, I've shown how to provision a ServiceBusTrigger queue from within a Function.In this post, we'll take that idea...
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