Developing applications with Azure Event Hub

We created and configured our instance of Azure Event Hub in the Azure portal; now it is time to work with a concept I mentioned at the very beginning—Event Processor Host. In this section, you will learn:

  • How to send events to Azure Event Hub
  • How to receive events by implementing your own Event Processor Host

Before we start writing some code, however, you have to understand what really underlies such a concept. As opposed to competing consumers, where each consumer uses the same messaging channel, Azure Event Hub uses the idea of an Event Processor Host, which is an intelligent agent able to distribute events between different, partitioned consumers. You may wonder how this idea works when ...

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