Azure Event Hubs
Azure Event Hubs is a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service on Microsoft Azure designed for streaming big data and event processing. It can receive and process millions of events per second from various sources like IoT devices, applications, and websites, providing low latency and high throughput. The service acts as the 'front door' for an event pipeline, enabling scalable data collection and integration with downstream analytics services.
Developers should use Azure Event Hubs when building applications that require handling massive volumes of real-time data streams, such as IoT telemetry, log aggregation, or financial transaction processing. It is ideal for scenarios needing reliable, partitioned ingestion with support for protocols like AMQP, Kafka, and HTTPS, and integrates seamlessly with Azure services like Stream Analytics, Functions, and Databricks for further processing. Learning it is valuable for cloud-based data engineering and event-driven architectures on Azure.