Service Bus - freshness review

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articles/service-bus-messaging/service-bus-queues-topics-subscriptions.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Azure Service Bus messaging - queues, topics, and subscriptions
 description: This article provides an overview of Azure Service Bus messaging entities (queue, topics, and subscriptions).
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.custom: devx-track-extended-java
-ms.date: 10/11/2022
+ms.date: 11/15/2023
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 # Service Bus queues, topics, and subscriptions
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Queues offer **First In, First Out** (FIFO) message delivery to one or more comp
 
 :::image type="content" source="./media/service-bus-messaging-overview/about-service-bus-queue.png" alt-text="Image showing how Service Queues work.":::
 
-A key benefit of using queues is to achieve **temporal decoupling of application components**. In other words, the producers (senders) and consumers (receivers) don't have to send and receive messages at the same time. That's because messages are stored durably in the queue. Furthermore, the producer doesn't have to wait for a reply from the consumer to continue to process and send messages.
+A key benefit of using queues is to achieve **temporal decoupling of application components**. In other words, the producers (senders) and consumers (receivers) don't have to send and receive messages at the same time, because messages are stored durably in the queue. Furthermore, the producer doesn't have to wait for a reply from the consumer to continue to process and send messages.
 
 A related benefit is **load-leveling**, which enables producers and consumers to send and receive messages at different rates. In many applications, the system load varies over time. However, the processing time required for each unit of work is typically constant. Intermediating message producers and consumers with a queue means that the consuming application only has to be able to handle average load instead of peak load. The depth of the queue grows and contracts as the incoming load varies. This capability directly saves money regarding the amount of infrastructure required to service the application load. As the load increases, more worker processes can be added to read from the queue. Each message is processed by only one of the worker processes. Furthermore, this pull-based load balancing allows for best use of the worker computers even if the worker computers with processing power pull messages at their own maximum rate. This pattern is often termed the **competing consumer** pattern.
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ You can specify two different modes in which consumers can receive messages from
 
         If the application is unable to process the message for some reason, it can request the Service Bus service to **abandon** the message. Service Bus **unlocks** the message and makes it available to be received again, either by the same consumer or by another competing consumer. Secondly, there's a **timeout** associated with the lock. If the application fails to process the message before the lock timeout expires, Service Bus unlocks the message and makes it available to be received again.
 
-        If the application crashes after it processes the message, but before it requests the Service Bus service to complete the message, Service Bus redelivers the message to the application when it restarts. This process is often called **at-least once** processing. That is, each message is processed at least once. However, in certain situations the same message may be redelivered. If your scenario can't tolerate duplicate processing, add additional logic in your application to detect duplicates. For more information, see [Duplicate detection](duplicate-detection.md), which is known as **exactly once** processing.
+        If the application crashes after it processes the message, but before it requests the Service Bus service to complete the message, Service Bus redelivers the message to the application when it restarts. This process is often called **at-least once** processing. That is, each message is processed at least once. However, in certain situations the same message might be redelivered. If your scenario can't tolerate duplicate processing, add extra logic in your application to detect duplicates. For more information, see [Duplicate detection](duplicate-detection.md), which is known as **exactly once** processing.
 
         > [!NOTE]
         > For more information about these two modes, see [Settling receive operations](message-transfers-locks-settlement.md#settling-receive-operations).
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ A queue allows processing of a message by a single consumer. In contrast to queu
 
 :::image type="content" source="./media/service-bus-messaging-overview/about-service-bus-topic.png" alt-text="Image showing a Service Bus topic with three subscriptions.":::
 
-The subscriptions can use additional filters to restrict the messages that they want to receive. Publishers send messages to a topic in the same way that they send messages to a queue. But, consumers don't receive messages directly from the topic. Instead, consumers receive messages from subscriptions of the topic. A topic subscription resembles a virtual queue that receives copies of the messages that are sent to the topic. Consumers receive messages from a subscription identically to the way they receive messages from a queue.
+The subscriptions can use more filters to restrict the messages that they want to receive. Publishers send messages to a topic in the same way that they send messages to a queue. But, consumers don't receive messages directly from the topic. Instead, consumers receive messages from subscriptions of the topic. A topic subscription resembles a virtual queue that receives copies of the messages that are sent to the topic. Consumers receive messages from a subscription identically to the way they receive messages from a queue.
 
 The message-sending functionality of a queue maps directly to a topic and its message-receiving functionality maps to a subscription. Among other things, this feature means that subscriptions support the same patterns described earlier in this section regarding queues: competing consumer, temporal decoupling, load leveling, and load balancing.
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Then, send messages to a topic and receive messages from subscriptions using cli
 
 ### Rules and actions
 
-In many scenarios, messages that have specific characteristics must be processed in different ways. To enable this processing, you can configure subscriptions to find messages that have desired properties and then perform certain modifications to those properties. While Service Bus subscriptions see all messages sent to the topic, it's possible to only copy a subset of those messages to the virtual subscription queue. This filtering is accomplished using subscription filters. Such modifications are called **filter actions**. When a subscription is created, you can supply a filter expression that operates on the properties of the message. The properties can be both the system properties (for example, **Label**) and custom application properties (for example, **StoreName**.) The SQL filter expression is optional in this case. Without a SQL filter expression, any filter action defined on a subscription will be done on all the messages for that subscription.
+In many scenarios, messages that have specific characteristics must be processed in different ways. To enable this processing, you can configure subscriptions to find messages that have desired properties and then perform certain modifications to those properties. While Service Bus subscriptions see all messages sent to the topic, it's possible to only copy a subset of those messages to the virtual subscription queue. This filtering is accomplished using subscription filters. Such modifications are called **filter actions**. When a subscription is created, you can supply a filter expression that operates on the properties of the message. The properties can be both the system properties (for example, **Label**) and custom application properties (for example, **StoreName**.) The SQL filter expression is optional in this case. Without a SQL filter expression, any filter action defined on a subscription is done on all the messages for that subscription.
 
 For a full working example, see the [TopicFilters sample](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/tree/master/sdk/servicebus/Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus/samples/TopicFilters) on GitHub. For more information about filters, see [Topic filters and actions](topic-filters.md).
 
@@ -104,15 +104,15 @@ Learn more about the [JMS 2.0 entities](java-message-service-20-entities.md) and
 
 ## Next steps
 
-Try the samples in the language of your choice to explore Azure Service Bus features. 
+Try the samples in the language of your choice: 
 
 - [Azure Service Bus client library samples for .NET (latest)](/samples/azure/azure-sdk-for-net/azuremessagingservicebus-samples/)
 - [Azure Service Bus client library samples for Java (latest)](/samples/azure/azure-sdk-for-java/servicebus-samples/)
 - [Azure Service Bus client library samples for Python](/samples/azure/azure-sdk-for-python/servicebus-samples/)
 - [Azure Service Bus client library samples for JavaScript](/samples/azure/azure-sdk-for-js/service-bus-javascript/)
 - [Azure Service Bus client library samples for TypeScript](/samples/azure/azure-sdk-for-js/service-bus-typescript/)
 
-Find samples for the older .NET and Java client libraries below:
+For samples that use the older .NET and Java client libraries, use the following links:
 - [Azure Service Bus client library samples for .NET (legacy)](https://github.com/Azure/azure-service-bus/tree/master/samples/DotNet/Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus/)
 - [Azure Service Bus client library samples for Java (legacy)](https://github.com/Azure/azure-service-bus/tree/master/samples/Java/azure-servicebus/MessageBrowse)