📋 Messaging & Events Cheat Sheet

Event-driven and message-based architecture patterns for AZ-204.

Event Grid

  • Pub/sub model: publishers emit events; subscribers handle them via webhooks or queues.
  • System topics for Azure service events; custom topics for application events.
  • Event filtering: subject prefix/suffix and advanced field-based filters.
  • At-least-once delivery with 24-hour retry and dead-letter support.

Service Bus

  • Queues: point-to-point with peek-lock (safe) or receive-and-delete (fast).
  • Topics and subscriptions: publish-subscribe pattern with SQL-like filters.
  • Sessions enable FIFO ordering and stateful message processing.
  • Dead-letter queue captures messages that cannot be processed.

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