Azure Event Hub in Azure

John Dhinakar Challa
2 min readDec 6, 2023

Introduction

Azure Event Hubs is a scalable and high-throughput event streaming platform provided by Microsoft Azure. It is designed to ingest, buffer, and distribute massive amounts of streaming data from various sources, such as applications, devices, and sensors. Azure Event Hubs is particularly well-suited for real-time analytics, telemetry, and big data processing. It provides features like data partitioning, load balancing, and durable storage, ensuring that data is reliably and efficiently processed by consumer applications. This service is widely used for building event-driven architectures and handling data at scale in cloud-based and hybrid environments.

Scenario

Your organization, a rapidly growing tech company, urgently requires an event processing service capable of handling large event volumes with low latency and high reliability. This service must adapt to varying event loads, process data in real-time, and ensure uninterrupted operations to meet customer expectations and maintain competitiveness.

The Solution demands deploying the Event Hubs namespace and Event Hub and setting up retention period to the messages.

Instructions

  • In the Azure portal, navigate to the search bar and search for Event Hubs.
  • Open the resource by clicking on Event hubs and then click on create to create an Event Hubs namespace.
  • Resource group should be created with name “Test” in the…

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John Dhinakar Challa

Infrastructure Engineer with focus on Cloud & DevOps | AWS | Microsoft Azure | Google Cloud | Oracle Cloud