Microsoft Azure Event Hubs
Microsoft Azure Event Hubs is a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service that can receive and process millions of events per second from various sources like applications, devices, and sensors. It acts as a highly scalable event pipeline, enabling data streaming and integration for big data and analytics scenarios. Event Hubs supports multiple protocols and provides features like partitioning, retention, and integration with other Azure services for processing and analysis.
Developers should use Azure Event Hubs when building applications that require high-throughput, real-time data ingestion from IoT devices, telemetry systems, or distributed applications, as it can handle massive volumes of events with low latency. It is ideal for scenarios like log aggregation, anomaly detection, and streaming analytics, where data needs to be processed by services like Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Functions, or Apache Spark. Learning Event Hubs is valuable for cloud-native development on Azure, especially in data-intensive or IoT-focused projects.