Summary

  • 3 minutes

In this module, you learned how queues in Azure storage accounts are used to pass messages between components in a distributed application. Using queues in this way can help to make a distributed application more reliable and resilient to failures and periods of high demand. Using the Azure.Storage.Queues package for .NET, you can easily write C# or VB.NET code that creates queues, adds messages, or retrieves and removes messages from queues.

Clean up

The sandbox automatically cleans up your resources when you're finished with this module.

When you're working in your own subscription, it's a good idea at the end of a project to identify whether you still need the resources you created. Resources that you leave running can cost you money. You can delete resources individually or delete the resource group to delete the entire set of resources.

Extra resources

Check your knowledge

1.

Suppose you work for a government agency that plans the long-term expansion of the highway system. You receive traffic data from thousands of sensors and analyze it to make your recommendations. The amount of incoming data varies throughout the day; for example, it spikes during the morning and evening commuting hours. True or false: a server-side architecture consisting of an Azure Queue connected to a single virtual machine is a reasonable choice for this workload?

2.

What information uniquely identifies a queue?

3.

True or false: when a client programmatically retrieves a message from a queue, the message is automatically deleted from the queue?