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Using Azure Event Grid

Using Azure Event Grid

- [Instructor] Azure Event Grid is a serverless solution for managing events between other system components. It's actually one of those services that is used throughout the Azure platform and often without you even realizing it. In fact, you don't even need to create anything in Azure to start using it. It's just there. The service itself acts as a central point for managing events. So components can either send events to it or they can subscribe and receive events from it. So a common example often used for an application that resizes images into thumbnails when you upload them. In other words, you create a storage account and every time a user uploads an image to the storage count, an event is fired. Another service such as Azure Function subscribes to that event or event topic so that when the file is uploaded, it gets notified and then the function resizes the image. We won't create that function to demo this.…

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