Event management for the serverless era A problem with early serverless implementations is that event triggers are treated as one-off objects tied to a particular function and application. Looking ...

Microsoft’s Azure Event Grid product provides a simple way to manage these functions, Corey Sanders, head of product for Azure Compute, said in a blog post.

Microsoft is kicking off a preview of its Azure Event Grid, a service to assist programmers building event-based and serverless applications. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor ...

Event Grid takes the ideas of Azure Functions and Logic Apps a bit further, though, thanks to its built-in ability to take inputs from any application with the help of webhook endpoints.

With IoT Hub pushing device telemetry events to Event Grid, developers can create multiple subscribers to trigger, for instance, distinct Azure Functions, Logic Apps or third-party applications to ...

Azure Event Grid is available in several Azure cloud data center regions, including California, Virginia, Ireland and Hong Kong. In the U.S., the service costs 60 cents per every million events.

What’s maybe more important, though, is that Event Grid also has a 24-hour retry policy, so if one side of your system goes down, Event Grid will continue to deliver its notification for a full day.