Exploring EDAs

In this section, we will dive into the EDA world in a more concrete way. Our objective is to make you familiar with some of the Azure services that help build EDA solutions. By the end of this section, you will understand the basics of Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hub, and real-time processing with Stream Analytics.

In Chapter 2, Solution Architecture, we described and explained the EDA map, as shown in Figure 5.21:

Figure 5.21 – The EDA map

Instead of re-explaining what we have already discussed, let's add some messaging and event capabilities to the application that we developed in Chapter 2, Solution Architecture, in the Solution architecture use case section. As a reminder, the initial scenario was the following:

Contoso needs a configurable workflow tool that allows you to orchestrate multiple resource-intensive tasks. Each task must launch large datasets to perform in-memory calculations. For some reason, the datasets...