An airhacks.fm conversation with Ashish Chhabria (@ashishc1) about:

Compaq Presario, Windows 95 Pentium 1 with MMX,

2 GB harddrive and 16 MB RAM,

QBasic and GW-Basic,

playing virtual cricket,

creating calculator from scratch,

fascianation with math,

learning C and C++,

algorithms as hobby,

rewriting SMTP server in C and berkeley sockets,

starting with Java 1.6,

starting at Morgan Stanley in New York,

starting at Microsoft in Seattle,

product manager on azure messaging team,

Microsoft Azure Service Bus,

Microsoft Azure Event Hubs,

Microsoft Azure Event Grid,

Microsoft Azure Relay,

Azure Service Bus supports Java Message Service (JMS),

JMS 2.0 is just a set of interfaces,

Project Darkstar and JMS debate,

AMQP with JMS 2.0,

JMS is not a protocol,

AMQP is the protocol,

Active MQ uses AMQP,

Azure Service Bus Java SDK comes as a Maven dependency,

Microsoft Azure Logic Apps listens to Azure Service Bus,

Microsoft Azure Functions as an integration system,

Azure Service Bus passes over 90% JMS 2.0 TCKs (Test Compatibility Kit),

QueueBrowsers and Message Selectors are supported by Azure Service Bus,

1k topics and queues combined,

2k subscriptions,

5k concurrent AMQP connections per namespace / instance,

a namespace comes with 2,4 or 8 a messaging units,

Azure Service Bus SDK comes with built-in retry mechanism,

idempotent messages are supported,

Azure Service Bus uses Azure Storage for replication,

Azure Service Bus vs. Apache Kafka,

events vs. messages,

kafka is not a queue,