Using Event Hub and EventProcessorHost on Azure Government
(Cross-posted from http://blog.randomdust.com)
There are few needs which apply to almost every industry when it comes to building software and solutions to meet the needs of that industry. Manufacturing, healthcare, industrial, education, home automation, military and public safety (to name a few) all have a need to collect data from hundreds/thousands/millions of data sources and bring the data together in order to either report on it as a whole or send the data somewhere else. For example, a government agency responsible for monitoring rainfall and temperature across an entire country. It would be great if that agency could set up a few thousand monitoring stations around the country and have those stations report their respective sensor data to a central location for aggregation where the agency can begin to see trends across various regions within the country and across given time spans. Quite a bit more reliable and near-real time compared to sending a worker out to each station to collect data and bring it back manually to a data center.
In order to manage the intake and processing of what could be billions of pieces of data per day we will need a scalable and efficient hub for all of the sources to talk to at once. Using architecture speak, we need a durable event stream collection service. Azure Event Hub was built to support these types of use cases and perform as the event stream collection service that sits in the middle of our Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. Once we get our environmental sensors set up to send their data to Event Hub, we can easily scale that service to support the thousands of devices we need and begin building really powerful reporting solutions that utilize the ingested data.
To see what an actual Event Hub implementation would start to look like on Azure Government, where it was recently released (as of the date of this post) along with all other Azure regions, let’s start by setting up a simple Event Hub service using a single instance of EventProcessorHost following the instructions on the Azure documentation site. For the most part, using Event Hubs in Azure Government is the same as any other Azure region. However, since the endpoint for Azure Government is usgovcloudapi.net instead of windows.net for many other Azure regions, the sample needs to be modified a bit. Click here to continue reading.
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