Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker with message queues and publish-subscribe topics. It's a key component in decoupling applications and services from each other, allowing for more flexible, reliable, and scalable cloud solutions. Key features of Azure Service Bus include:
Asynchronous messaging Advanced messaging scenarios (message sessions, autoforwarding)
- Transaction support
- Message scheduling
- Message deferral
- Dead-lettering
- Automatic duplicate detection
Common Use Cases:
Decoupling applications
- Load balancing work across competing workers
- Implementing publish/subscribe patterns
- Implementing request/response patterns
- Messaging between different parts of a distributed application