Azure Storage for Developers: Queues

Take a deep dive into Azure Queue Storage, a queuing service built on Azure Storage that enables you to store a large amount of messages.

Queues are the universal solution to the dual challenges of latency and scalability. The use of queues can help to resolve several notable challenges in distributed computing, including load smoothing. In this course, instructor Anton Delsink takes a deep dive into Azure Queue Storage, a queuing service built on Azure Storage that enables you to store a large amount of messages. To kick off the course, Anton steps through how to create and properly secure a storage account. He then details key queue concepts, including how to manage the lifecycle of a message by managing the visible time property, how to use a shared access signature to provide privileges to queue clients, and more.

Interested in learning more about other storage options? Check out additional courses in the Azure Storage for Developers series.

Introduction

• A closer look at Azure Storage queues
• What you should know

1. Overview

• Azure Storage overview
• Create your first storage account
• Create a blob storage account
• Azure Storage Explorer

2. Security

• Shared key authentication
• Shared access signatures (SAS)
• Stored access policies
• Encryption at rest

3. Queue Concepts

• Introduction to Azure Storage queues
• Queue concepts
• Queue XML
• Queue visible time property
• Queue metadata
• Queue access control (SAS)
• Queue performance considerations
• Common patterns

Conclusion

• Next steps