Modern applications put the flexibility of the cloud to a good use by getting themselves distant from the monolithic architectures by means of a set of distinct services, all working together. This includes two kinds of services i.e. foundational services offered by a cloud platform such as Azure and application-specific services.
Event-driven execution has secured its place as a cornerstone of the new architectures. It now tends to replace cumbersome polling for communication between services with a process which is rather simple. These events may include:
In these new app paradigms, it is difficult to react to these events in an efficient manner.
Azure proudly announced the general availability of Azure Event Grid, an event-routing service which is totally managed and which makes the development of event-based applications a lot easier.
Being the first of its kind, Azure Event Grid enables applications and services to subscribe to all those events that need to be handled regardless of whether they are coming from Azure services or any other part of the same application.
The delivery of these events is made possible through push semantics, simplification of user code and the reduction of resource consumption. Now users make only per-minute payment and do not have to poll for changes at all times. The service is designed so that it scales dynamically on its own and tends to handle millions of events per second.
Azure Event Grid offers several ways to choose from in order to react to these events. It could be done by:
Azure Event Grid makes it easier to give a reaction to Azure native events and to build applications anywhere!
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Following are the new options:
These new integrations have made the architecture simpler and serve the purpose of expanding the possibilities for both cloud and on-premises applications.
Azure Event Grid is globally available in the following regions:
Along with an exponential back off for event delivery, Azure Event Grid also offers a 24-hour retry policy. As far as your production workloads are concerned, it offers an industry-leading 99.99% availability with a financially backed SLA. Having said that, your business-critical applications can totally rely on Azure Event Grid.
