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A Queue By Any Other Name Would Still Work The Same

... Or Would It?

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Windows Azure Queuing Technologies

In the beginning…

Demo ….

The part where I attempt a technology feat of incomparable simplicity.

A word about visibility and idiopotentcy idempentacy idempotence…

* Gratuitous animations do NOT equate to a better presentation, but do clap, they’re hard to put together…

Then came Windows Azure Service Bus Queues…

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Service Bus Relay Messaging

Sender Receiver

sb://stringreversalinc.servicebus.windows.net/processtringBackendNamingRoutingFabric

Frontend Nodes

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So, what does Service Bus Queues look like?

Demo ….

The part where I attempt a technology feat more complex than the last one, which I hoped

worked otherwise I’m in real trouble this time

In the event of demo failure, simply applaud and produce generous amounts of ooohhhsss, and aaaahhhs, so that others outside this room will believe

everything was a blazing success.

If the demo worked, apply the same reaction

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Subscription A

Topic

Service Bus Topics & Subscriptions

Subscription BSubscription C

(Filtered)

Demo ….

Add witty remark here…

Storage Queues Service Bus QueuesMessage SizeUp to 64K Up to 256K + Sessions

Message TTLUp to 7 Days Up to basically forever

Queue CapacityUp to 100 TB Up to 5GB

AuthenticationStorage Credentials ACS – fine grained

REST APIYes Yes, not all features

Flexible Lease/LockYes No

Automatic DeadletteringNo Yes

Dup CheckingNo Yes

PurgeYes No

Long PollingNo Yes

Storage Queues Service Bus QueuesTransactions1 cent /100K 1 cent / 10K ***

Cost

Billable OpsAll Send / Receive

Idle TransactionsBillable Billable

Storage$0.125 * / GB / Month $0.00

Prices as of the time 8/04/2012 – check prices online for current. * Tiered pricing, starts at this price.** Not charged until Dec 1st 2012*** messages over 64K may cause a transaction per 64K

Bandwidth Standard WAZ PriceStandard WAZ Price

ACS $1.99 / 100K Tokens **N/A

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