15,000 GPS pings a second. Do not put that in a queue.

Frequently asked questions

Why doesn't a queue work for 60,000 drivers sending GPS pings?

A queue hands each message to exactly one consumer and removes it — if four different teams (routing, billing, safety, analytics) all need the same ping, a queue can't give it to all of them. A partitioned event stream can, because reading doesn't remove the event.

How does Event Hubs keep one driver's pings in order?

By partition key — pings from the same driver land in the same partition, and a partition preserves the order of what was written to it, so one consumer reading that partition sees that driver's pings in order.

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