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Important terms and concepts

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Important terms and concepts

- [Instructor] So now that we have some basic understanding of the Azure Event Grid, its purpose and what it actually does, let's dive a little bit deeper and understand some important terms and concepts as they apply to Azure Event Grid, starting with event. Event, it is the smallest amount of information that fully describes that, hey, something happened. So the idea being that one entity was just to inform some other entity that something happened, you need to work on this. So the entity that is the publisher of the event just pushes an event out without the knowledge of who is interested in processing this event, right. This event is limited to 64 kilobytes in data and it must adhere to a strict schema, the link for which you can find here. Then you have a publisher. A publisher is a user or an organization that sends these events. There are several publishers that come right out of the box on Microsoft Azure, and this list keeps growing. But third party organizations or your code…

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