Events are delivered in near real time, so consumers can respond immediately to events as they occur. Producers are decoupled from consumers — a producer doesn't know which consumers are listening. Consumers are also decoupled from each other, and every consumer sees all of the events. This differs from a Competing Consumers pattern, where consumers pull messages from a queue and a message is processed just once (assuming no errors). In some systems, such as IoT, events must be ingested at very high volumes.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/architecture-styles/event-driven
