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 by producers and processed by consumers. Events can form a stream of events where each event represents the current state of the remote system. For instance, 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 and recommend adjustments and maintenance.

Another common example of leveraging 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 hits the threshold, it triggers your system to...