Overview

Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise integration message broker that enables you to decouple applications and services. It offers reliable message queuing and publish-subscribe messaging patterns, allowing for asynchronous communication between different parts of your applications, even if they are distributed across the globe or running on different platforms.

Service Bus provides a robust and scalable platform for handling complex messaging scenarios, including:

  • Message Queuing: For reliable, asynchronous communication.
  • Publish-Subscribe Messaging: For broadcasting messages to multiple subscribers.
  • Advanced Features: Such as message deferral, dead-lettering, session management, and transaction support.

Key Concepts

Queues

Queues enable you to send and receive messages. Each message is processed by a single consumer, ensuring that an operation is performed only once. This is ideal for scenarios where you need to ensure that a task is completed without duplication.

Topics and Subscriptions

Topics allow a publisher to send messages to a subject without knowing who the subscribers are. Subscriptions are created for a topic, and each subscription receives a copy of the messages sent to the topic. This pattern is useful for broadcasting events or notifications to multiple interested parties.

Namespaces

A Service Bus namespace is a container for all your messaging components, such as queues and topics. It provides a unique scoping mechanism for your Service Bus resources.

Messages

Messages are the fundamental unit of communication in Service Bus. They can contain any type of data, such as JSON, XML, or plain text, and can be routed and processed based on their content or metadata.

Getting Started

Learn how to create and configure Azure Service Bus resources, send and receive messages, and integrate Service Bus with your applications.

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