Modern applications need to do more than respond to requests. They must react to business events, scale reliably, recover from failure, and increasingly use AI to understand what is happening and decide what should happen next.
Build Event-Driven Systems with Microsoft AI is a practical guide to building cloud-native, intelligent applications on Microsoft Azure. Through Food Zing, a real-world food delivery application built throughout the book, you will see how a traditional application evolves into a secure, resilient, event-driven, and AI-powered platform.
From Azure messaging and reliable event processing to recommendations, anomaly detection, Azure AI Foundry, agents, and RAG, the book connects architecture concepts to working business scenarios rather than isolated technology demos.
What You Will Learn

• Design event-driven workflows using Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, APIs, Functions, and background workers.
• Build secure and reliable systems with JWT, Azure Key Vault, retries, dead-letter queues, and idempotency.
• Turn business actions such as orders, payments, registrations, and anomalies into meaningful domain events.
• Add intelligent capabilities including recommendations, voice interaction, anomaly detection, and AI-assisted fraud review.
• Build with Azure AI Foundry, RAG, AI agents, tools, function calling, and MCP.
• Design AI features that are grounded, observable, resilient, and human-guided for real production workflows.

Who This Book Is For
This book is for developers, cloud engineers, solution architects, and technical leaders who want to move beyond traditional APIs and learn how Azure event-driven architecture and Microsoft AI can work together in real-world applications.