Understanding the Role of Event-Driven Solutions

An event-driven solution plays a significant role in the modern world to help services running on different platforms and environments communicate. An event is a small chunk of data rapidly transferred from producers to consumers. Multiple events can form a stream of events where each event transfers the current state of the remote system. For instance, here’s a predictive maintenance scenario – IoT sensors can generate measurements in a real production environment. Then, Azure Stream Analytics services can implement the event-processing platform and leverage Azure Machine Learning services to monitor and predict trends in changes, recommending adjustments and maintenance.

Another common scenario of using events is the reactive programming model. Imagine a website that requires scaling at the time of peak load. You could build a service that can consume the events received from the monitoring system. When the workload...