Hands-On Azure for Developers

Handling outages

While a disaster often means that some part of your data is lost, an outage may be described as a service being temporarily unavailable. This is why once it is resolved, you may want to synchronize both Service Bus namespaces. While this process is automatic, it may take a while. It is stated in the documentation that only 50-100 entities will be transferred per minute. For this reason, you may consider the concept of active/passive replication:

• Active: In such an approach, you have two active namespaces, which actively receive messages. Then a receiver always receives both of them—you have to tag them properly with the same unique identifier used to detect duplicates (you can use either the MessageId or Label property for ...