Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service
Using WebSocket with the publish-subscribe method to create real-time messaging web apps is simple with the Azure Web Pub Sub Service. With the help of these real-time capabilities, connected clients and the server can publish content updates (for example, in a single-page web application or mobile application). Clients are not required to poll for new updates or send fresh HTTP requests.
What is Azure Web Pub Sub service used for?
The Azure Web Pub Sub service can be used in any scenario that calls for real-time publish-subscribe messaging between servers and clients or among clients. The Azure Web Pub Sub service can also be used for conventional real-time features, which frequently call for polling the server or sending HTTP queries.
Any application that needs real-time content updates can take advantage of the Azure Web Pub Sub service. Here are a few examples of effective uses of the Azure Web Pub Sub service:
1. Data updates at a high frequency for gaming, voting, polling, and bidding.
2. Live dashboards and monitoring include business dashboards, financial market data, in-game leaderboards, quick sales updates, and IoT monitoring.
3. Cross-platform live chat: live chat rooms, chatbots, online customer support, real-time shopping assistants, messenger, in-game chat, and so on.
4. GPS apps, delivery status tracking, logistics tracking, and real-time location updates on a map
5. Real-time targeted ads: personalized real-time push ads and offers, interactive ads.
6. Collaborative apps: co-authoring, whiteboard apps, and team meeting software.
7. Push instant notifications: social network, email, game, travel alert.
8. Real-time broadcasting: live audio/video broadcasting, live captioning, translating, and event and news broadcasting.
9. IoT and connected devices: instantaneous IoT measurements, remote management, instantaneous status, and location monitoring.
10. Automation: real-time trigger from upstream events.
What are the benefits of using Azure Web Pub Sub service?
Built-in support for large-scale client connections and highly available architectures:
A vast number of real-time applications are catered for by the Azure Web Pub Sub service. The service supports scaling to millions of client connections and many instances running concurrently. For the purposes of sharding, high availability, or disaster recovery, it also supports numerous global regions.
Support for a wide variety of client SDKs and programming languages:
A wide variety of clients are supported by the Azure Web Pub Sub service, including web and mobile browsers, desktop and mobile apps, server processes, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and gaming consoles. It is simple to use any common WebSocket client SDK in various languages with this service because it supports the standard WebSocket connection with a publish-subscribe architecture.
Offer rich APIs for different messaging patterns:
The bi-directional Azure Web Pub Sub service enables many communication patterns between servers and clients, such as:
The server transmits messages to a specific client, to every client, or to a subset of clients that are members of a given user or are assigned to a predetermined group.
The client sends messages to clients that belong to an arbitrary group.
The clients send messages to the server.
How to use the Azure Web Pub Sub service?
There are many different ways to program with the Azure Web Pub Sub service, as some of the samples listed here illustrate:
Create serverless real-time applications: You can create serverless real-time applications using the JavaScript, C#, Java, and Python programming languages by integrating Azure Functions with the Azure Web Pub Sub service.
Use the WebSocket subprotocol for client-side-only applications. WebSocket subprotocols are provided by the Pub/Sub—AAzure Web Pub Sub service to enable authorized customers to conveniently publish to other clients.
Use the provided SDKs to manage WebSocket connections on self-hosted app servers. The Azure Web Pub Sub service offers SDKs in C#, JavaScript, Java, and Python to make it simple to manage WebSocket connections, such as sending broadcast messages to them, grouping them into specific groups, or closing them.
Send messages from the server to clients via REST API: The Azure Web Pub Sub service provides a REST API to enable applications to post messages to clients in any REST-capable programming language.
Feature Of Azure PubSub Service
Focus on application logic, not infrastructure
Your application can now include real-time messaging and communication features without the requirement to set up and maintain WebSocket servers. Azure Web PubSub provides hosting, scalability, load balancing, and other chores as a fully managed service, freeing you to concentrate on your strengths.
Engage customers anywhere in real-time
With flexible SDKs, you may use web applications, mobile platforms, and desktop platforms to send real-time communications to your consumers everywhere.
Build advanced capabilities with Azure services
Use Azure services to give your applications smart features, including speech recognition and machine learning, and to help safeguard them with built-in Azure security.
Flexible and scalable pricing
Create your web applications for nothing, and then scale them up with customizable pricing to meet your demands.
Conclusion
Microsoft Azure Solution Bus is a fully managed messaging service for on-premises and cloud-based applications. Service Bus can be utilized for decoupled communication between application component components whether it is running locally or in the cloud. Any number of subscribers can receive messages sent to a topic or queue thanks to the publish/subscribe model that underpins the Service Bus messaging service. The Service Bus also supports advanced features, including sessions, dead-letter queues, and message deferral.
