Comparing Azure message-based services
In Chapter 12, Developing Event-Based Solutions, you learned about the Event Hubs and Event Grid services. Now, we can contrast and compare them with the message-based solutions hosted in Azure. First, let’s talk about the similarities. The event-based and message-based solutions both leverage calls to public access endpoints. Both technologies can work as message brokers and transfer states for the synchronization of physically separate processes. Both services are enterprise-grade, hosted on Azure PaaS, and provide high availability and SLAs.
The difference between message-based services lies in the nature of the transferred data. With messages, a significant part of the data is self-defined and guarantees delivery and sequencing. However, events are small pieces of information and can be produced as a stream, with possible losses or changes made to sequences. Another difference is that event-based technologies are designed for the...
