Message-based architectures decouple services and applications, allowing them to run on different platforms at different speeds with resilient, highly-available patterns. In this course, you’ll explore how to use Azure when building message-based applications. You’ll examine how to broker messages and identify when to use either a Service Bus queue or a topic and subscription model. You’ll outline how to code messages to include payload, routing, and serialization information, and to validate message transferal and settlement. Next, you’ll describe message sequencing, scheduling, and expiration in Azure Service Bus and learn how to deploy a new Azure Service Bus. Lastly, you’ll learn how to use Azure Queue Storage to store message queues, build queue storage functions into a .NET app, and manage queues. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure certification exam.