May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
10h 6m
English
Content preview from Implementing Azure Solutions
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Queue storage services
Azure Queue enables messaging between different parts of applications. This is used in the development of highly scalable and flexible applications. Components of applications are often decoupled, to enable independent scalability for the single parts.
Queues are also used as an asynchronous method of communication between components that run on different locations (cloud, on-premises, desktop, mobile). It's also possible to build workflows and asynchronous tasks based on Azure Storage Queues.
One Storage account has no limit on the number of queues, as well as the number of messages these contain. A single message can be up to 64 KB in size.
There are two different kinds of queues in Microsoft Azure. The first one ...