Subscribe! -Messaging, Eventing, and Analytics

In this episode, Clemens introduces CNCF xRegistry (xregistry.io), explains how it evolved from CloudEvents work in the CNCF Serverless Working Group, and shows why teams need machine-readable metadata for events, schemas, and endpoints to build reliable event-driven systems. He walks through the core idea of an extensible, model-driven registry with consistent APIs, built-in versioning, and suppo...

https://cloudevents.io In this episode of Subscribe, Clemens discusses CNCF CloudEvents, a protocol suite developed by the CNCF Serverless Working Group to provide a common metadata language for events. Developed by a collaborative group of up to 40 companies, CloudEvents establishes a layered standard that defines what an event is and provides consistent mechanisms for expressing those events acr...

In this episode of Subscribe , Clemens introduces JSON Structure , a pragmatic data definition language designed to address the architectural shortcomings of JSON Schema. Consisting of a core specification and six companion extensions, the project shifts focus from simple validation to robust structural modeling for programming languages and databases. Key features include a rich system of extende...

In this episode, the relationship and shared architecture between Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) and Microsoft Fabric Event Streams are explored, highlighting how both leverage the same underlying engine to process real-time data with millisecond latency. The session details how ASA functions as an event-driven engine for creating standing queries using a SQL-92 dialect or a no-code drag-and-drop in...

In this fifth episode, we explore Azure Event Grid, the versatile eventing backplane for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric. This episode details how Event Grid functions as a unified system combining a fully conformant MQTT 3.1.1 and 5.0 broker with a CloudEvents-based PubSub engine. We break down the technical differences between the Basic tier, which focuses on event-driven push delivery to t...

In this episode, Clemens Vasters explains that Azure Service Bus is a fully managed message queue and PubSub broker that serves as a fundamental infrastructure piece for distributed systems. He defines the service as reliability as a service because it provides individual state management for the lifecycle of every message, ensuring that messages are exclusively acquired by a single consumer to pr...

In this episode, Clemens introduces Azure Event Hubs as Azure’s high‑throughput event streaming backbone, handling tens of trillions of events per day and exposing a fully managed, standards-based event stream broker that supports AMQP, HTTP, and the Apache Kafka protocol plus SDKs for major languages. He explains the different SKUs—Standard (shared, low-cost), Premium (isolated resources and adva...

This episode of Subscribe provides a 10 minute overview of Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, a unified solution designed to close the digital feedback loop by capturing and acting on data at the speed of business. While traditional real-time pipelines are often cost-prohibitive due to complex integration requirements, this platform simplifies the process for data analysts by layering an opi...