Recently, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka. Customers will get the best of both worlds—the ecosystem and tools of Kafka, along with Azure’s ...

The Microsoft Azure Event Hubs messaging service processed approximately 150 terabytes and 30 billion messages per day, or 375 000 messages per second, in June 2015, according to the Microsoft ...

All three perform essentially the same service. On Microsoft Azure, Apache Kafka on HDInsight and Confluent Cloud coexist with Azure Event Hubs and Azure Stream Analytics.

Microsoft is making inroads with its Serverless strategy. Azure Event Grid has the potential to become one of the key pillars of the Azure Serverless platform.

Microsoft is kicking off a preview of its Azure Event Grid, a service to assist programmers building event-based and serverless applications.

With Event Grid, Microsoft introduced a new Azure service last year that it hopes will become the glue that holds together modern event-driven and distributed applications. Starting today, Event ...