As AI-driven apps become more sophisticated, there's an increasing need for them to mimic collaborative problem solving - like a team of domain experts working together. Multi-agent apps offer exactly that: collections of specialized agents that cooperate to handle complex tasks. But to make them production-grade, you need more than just clever pro...

This article was co-authored by Sudhindra Sheshadrivasan, Staff Product Manager at Confluent. We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Confluent Cloud-managed V2 Kafka Connector for Azure Cosmos DB! This release marks a major milestone in our mission to simplify and streamline real-time data streaming from and into Azure Co...

We’re excited to announce the public preview of the Azure Cosmos DB SDK for Rust, a native Rust SDK that enables developers to interact with Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL accounts from their Rust applications. Following the release of Azure SDK for Rust Beta, the Azure Cosmos DB Rust SDK provides an idiomatic API for performing operations on databas...

Azure Cosmos DB was named by Bloomberg as the no. 1 Database of choice for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large Language Model (LLM) customization. It is used by OpenAI to scale it’s ChatGPT service, and by many thousands of customers worldwide, serving billions of end-users with globally distributed apps at planet scale. In this blog ...

We’re continuing to simplify AI app development by integrating Azure Cosmos DB’s cost-effective and scalable vector search directly with Spring AI and LangChain4J! These frameworks empower Java developers to efficiently manage fast and accurate data retrieval with Azure Cosmos DB’s scalability and efficient vector indexing and search capabilities, ...

We are excited to announce the preview release of the new Linux-based Azure Cosmos DB Emulator! This latest version is built to provide faster startup times and broader platform compatibility, addressing one of the most requested features in the Azure Cosmos DB User Voice community. The emulator can now seamlessly run on Apple silicon and Microsoft...

We’re always busy adding new features, fixes, patches, and improvements to our Java-based client libraries for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. In this regular blog series, we share highlights of recent updates in the last period. January – June 2024 updates ...

The Azure Fabric team announced Azure Cosmos DB CDC source to an event stream in preview at BUILD 2024. This capability uses a brand new major version of The Azure Cosmos DB Kafka Connector behind the scenes, and we are also excited to introduce version 2.0 in beta preview! This new version brings significant improvements in both the source and ...

The authors wish to thank Govind Kanshi (Principal PM Manager), Abinav Rameesh (Principal PM Manager), Kushagra Thapar (Principal Engineering Manager), Annie Liang (Sr. Software Engineer) and Faiz Chachiya (Sr. Cloud Solution Architect, CSU) for their valuable insights, and contributions during the Proof-of-Concept (PoC). Introduction  Azure Cosm...

What is the Catalyst program? The Cassandra Catalyst® Program is a prestigious initiative that recognizes individuals who are dedicated to the growth and success of the Apache Cassandra® community. German Eichberger, Principal Engineering Manager for Azure Managed Instances for Apache Cassandra, is a Catalyst who has demonstrated a deep unders...