Choosing your pub-sub messaging service; Service Bus and Event Grid

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Eldert Grootenboer

When we look at the messaging space on Azure, we have a wide variety of options, each with it’s own strengths and weaknesses. For example, we have Event Hubs, which provides capabilities for processing large amounts of data streams, Service Bus for enterprise messaging, and Event Grid for reactive eventing.

In this blog post, we will look into the the Publish – Subscribe pattern, and how we could implement this using Azure services. For this scenario, we receive messages from one or multiple sources, which we need to route to one or more subscribers, based on properties or content. Of the different messaging offerings, two of these jump out for this scenario, Service Bus and Event Grid. Let’s have a look at when to use which, and the reasons behind these decisions.

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Working with CloudEvents in Azure Event Grid

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Eldert Grootenboer

Recently Microsoft announced Azure Event Grid, a highly scalable serverless event driven offering allowing us to implement publish and subscribe patterns. Event driven scenarios are becoming more common by the day, which means that we see these type of integrations increasing a lot as well. A lot of times applications will define their own message formats for their events, however, with the recent announcement of native support in Azure Event Grid for CloudEvents our lives should be made a lot easier. CloudEvents is a standard for working with events accross platforms, and gives us a specification for describing event data in a common way. This will allow any platform or application which is working with events, to implement a common format, allowing easy integration and interoperability, for example between Azure, AWS and Oracle. The specification is still under active development, and Microsoft is one of the big contributors, especially Clemens Vasters, Lead Architect on Azure Messaging Services.

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Custom Subscribers In Azure Event Grid

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Eldert Grootenboer

After having shown how to send our custom events to Event Grid in my previous blog post, we will now see how we can create custom subscribers. Event Grid will be integrated with all Azure services, but by allowing us to create our own custom subscribers as well, we can truly route events to any service or application. And what’s more, we will also see how we can use the API to create a subscription from our subscriber, allowing us to quickly onboard new services, which can then start listening to the events which are of interest to them. In this sample, we will create an Azure API App, which will receive the events from our previous blog post, and store them in Azure Table Storage. On starting, the API App will check if the subscriptions it uses are created, and if not, it will create them and point them to the various endpoints the API App exposes.

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Sending Custom Events To Azure Event Grid

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Eldert Grootenboer

In my previous post I showed how we can use the recently announced Event Grid service to integrate Azure services with each other. In this post, I will show how we can send custom events from any application or service into Event Grid, allowing us to integrate any service. My next post will show you in detail how we can subscribe to these custom events.

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Creating event driven integrations using Azure Event Grid

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Eldert Grootenboer

Yesterday Microsoft announced their newest service on Azure, and it is called Azure Event Grid. With this new service, we now have event based serverless routing, from any source, to any destination. Of course, we all love integration, and Azure Event Grid brings a whole new world of possibilities. The service is currently in public preview, and we already have various publishes and event handlers to our disposal, and more will be rolling out over the coming months. In the end, expect every service within Azure to have a connection to Event Grid.