Azure Fundamentals: Microsoft.EventGrid

Microsoft Azure Event Grid is a fully-managed, serverless event routing service that enables event-driven architecture, allowing systems to react instantly to events. Traditional polling mechanisms are inefficient and resource-intensive, whereas Event Grid provides real-time responsiveness. Companies leveraging event-driven architectures see a 30% reduction in time-to-market for new features and a 20% improvement in operational efficiency. Event Grid is a central hub for receiving events from various sources and reliably routing them to subscribers, decoupling systems and allowing them to react to events without knowing the specifics of the event source or subscribers. The major components of Event Grid include event sources, events, Event Grid, event handlers, and event subscriptions. Real-world examples of Event Grid include image processing pipelines, security incident response, and order fulfillment automation. Event Grid boasts a rich set of features, including serverless and fully managed infrastructure, reliable event delivery, schema-based events, event filtering, dead-lettering, event transformation, and multiple handler types. Industry-specific motivations for using Event Grid include real-time fraud detection, immediate alerts based on patient monitoring data, and automated responses to sensor readings from IoT devices. Event Grid integrates seamlessly with a wide range of Azure services, acting as the central nervous system for applications. By using Event Grid, companies can build scalable, reactive systems and unlock the power of event-driven architecture.