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What is prefetching in Azure Service Bus?
Updated Apr 23, 2026
Short answer
Prefetching improves performance by fetching multiple messages in advance.
Deep explanation
Prefetch reduces network calls by retrieving messages in bulk before processing, increasing throughput.
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