Throughout my career architecting distributed systems, few database decisions have proven as consequential as choosing the right globally distributed data platform. Azure Cosmos DB represents Microsoft’s answer to the challenge of building planet-scale applications—a fully managed NoSQL database service that delivers single-digit millisecond latency anywhere in the world. After implementing Cosmos DB across numerous enterprise… Continue reading
Category: Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB – TTL (Time to Live) – Reference Usecase
TTL capability within Azure Cosmos DB is a live saver, as it would take necessary steps to purge redudent data based on the configurations you may. Let us think in terms of an Industrial IoT scenario, devices can produce vast amounts of telemetry information, logs and user session information that is only useful until we… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB–Multi Master
During the Ignite 2018, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Multi-Master feature being introduced to Azure Cosmos DB to provide more control into data redundancy and elastic scalability for your data from different regions with multiple writes and read instances. What is Multi-Master essentially? Multi-master is a capability that provided as part of Cosmos… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB–Reserved Capacity
Azure Cosmos DB is a planet scale global document database which have been available for Azure Customers based on pay-as-you-go. Reserved Capacity is a new long term pre-paid billing commitment customers can get a discounted pricing. Azure Cosmos DB reserved capacity helps you save money by pre-paying for Azure Cosmos DB resources for a period… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB–Setting Up New Database using Azure CLI–Sample
Purpose of this article is to help you with few steps of commands to provision a new Azure Cosmos DB database instance through Azure CLI or Azure Cloud Shell. Here is the snippet: <# This Bash script should help you create a Azure Cosmos DB instance using Azure CLI with bare minimal configuration #> export… Continue reading
70-777 – Azure Cosmos DB Certification Exam (BETA)
“70-777: Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions” is the new Microsoft certification in the town for any Developer or Architect who leverages Azure Cosmos DB. If you understand how Cosmos DB database can be configured and consumed using platform agnostic Cosmos DB API, this certification will help you prove your expertise. To read more about… Continue reading
Azure Cosmos DB – Change feed support(PREVIEW)–available
Today Microsoft announced the preview of Change feed Support for Azure Cosmos DB, which allows you to build scalable solutions. By default change feed will be enabled in all the accounts. Change feed provides an output of sorted list of documents that has been changed in the order in which they are modified by client… Continue reading