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Build real-time communication applications with Azure Web PubSub

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Azure’s latest service uses WebSockets to deliver a publish-and-subscribe messaging hub. Microsoft recently released a set of Azure tools, Azure Web PubSub, to help build and run this new generation of applications, taking advantage of the Azure platform-as-a-service approach and its serverless tools to host a publish-and-subscribe service designed to mix one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many communications, all while taking advantage of cloud economics and scalability to deliver a relatively low-cost service. Azure Web PubSub Overview Azure Web PubSub enables you to build real-time messaging web applications using WebSockets and the publish-subscribe pattern. Any platform supporting WebSocket APIs can connect to the service easily, e.g., web pages, mobile applications, edge devices, etc. The service manages the WebSocket connections for you and allows up to 100K  concurrent  connections. It provides powerful APIs for you to manage these clients and deliver real-time mes