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Azure Storage Queues

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Azure Storage Queues

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- [Instructor] The last type of storage we want to work with is working with queues. What queues are is it's a storage mechanism that allows us to add events or messages into a queue and then forget about it. And then workers can come along and take the work off the queue and do whatever they need to. Think of, like, when you go to the movies. There might be one line opened when you get there and then if the line gets long, they open more booths to sell more tickets and as long as it's busy, they will add ticket booths until it slows down, the line gets short, and then they can shut down the extra ticket booths until they get down to just the one. Same idea works with workflow and queues. I can have multiple producers and multiple workers and I can dynamically scale to fit how much work I need to be able to get done and I can scale it according to my own business rules. When we code against this, what we are doing is we're…

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