Design Guides
Design guides cover design decisions, platform behavior, and architectural considerations for working with Business Events. Unlike scenarios, which walk through a complete solution end to end, design guides focus on a single concept you can apply across any project.
Available guides
| Guide | Description |
|---|---|
| Event-Driven Architectures in Microsoft Fabric | How event-driven patterns work in Fabric and when to use them over polling or direct calls |
| Decision Guide | When to use Business Events vs. other Fabric capabilities |
| Structuring Payloads | How to design clean, meaningful event payloads and how CloudEvents works under the hood |
| Handling Retries | Built-in retry behavior and how to design idempotent consumers |
| Schema Versioning | How to evolve a schema and what changes publishers and consumers need to make |
| Multi-Consumer Fanout | Routing one event to multiple independent consumers |