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Build an Event-Driven Messaging Solution with Azure Service Bus

Create Service Bus queues and topics, build producer-consumer messaging, implement subscription filters, and handle dead-letter queues.

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Build an Event-Driven Messaging Solution with Azure Service Bus

Lab overview

Azure Service Bus is an enterprise-grade message broker that decouples application components through asynchronous messaging, enabling reliable communication between distributed systems even when individual services are temporarily unavailable. Unlike simple storage queues, Service Bus supports advanced patterns like publish-subscribe with filtered topic subscriptions, ordered message delivery, duplicate detection, and dead-letter queues for handling poison messages. These capabilities make it the backbone of event-driven architectures in production Azure environments.

In this lab, you will create queues and topics in a pre-provisioned Service Bus namespace, build producer-consumer messaging patterns using the Azure SDK for Python, configure topic subscriptions with SQL and correlation filters to route messages to specific subscribers, and inspect dead-letter queues to handle failed message delivery.

Objectives

By completing this intermediate lab, you will be able to:

  • Create queues and topics in a pre-provisioned Azure Service Bus namespace using the Azure Portal
  • Send and receive messages from a Service Bus queue using the Azure SDK for Python
  • Configure topic subscriptions with SQL and correlation filters to route messages to specific subscribers
  • Inspect and process messages from a dead-letter queue to handle failed message delivery
  • Compare Azure Service Bus and Azure Storage Queues to determine when to use each service

Who is this lab for?

  • Cloud Developers who need to implement asynchronous messaging patterns in distributed Azure applications

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Duration
60 min
Steps
5

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Lab curriculum

  1. 01

    Logging into Azure Account using Azure Portal

  2. 02

    Creating a Queue in the Service Bus Namespace

    1 automated check

  3. 03

    Sending and Receiving Queue Messages with Python

    1 automated check

  4. 04

    Configuring Topic Subscriptions with Filters

    1 automated check

  5. 05

    Handling Dead-Letter Queues and Choosing the Right Messaging Service

    1 automated check

Skills validated

Azure Service BusAzure Service Bus TopicsAzure Service Bus Queues

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