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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Azure Cosmos DB – 429 Too Many Requests

Recently while I was doing Performance Testing in one of the APIs interacting with Cosmos DB, I encountered a problem as Azure Cosmos DB API’s started returning Http Code 429.  Http Status Code 429 indicates that too many request been received or request rate is very large. This error would happen when we have concurrent […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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