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Attention Developers: The Cloud-Scale Data for Spring Developers Quick Start Guide is Finally Here!

September 28, 2022 Sep 28, 2022 09/28/22
Ricky Diep
(image) Overview  The purpose of this developer's quick start guide is to help you build cloud-native Java applications in Azure. You’ll gain insights about using NoSQL and why you should consider Azure Cosmos DB, our fully managed, distributed NoSQL database service on Azure.  These insights are designed to be useful, starting with ...

Build and deploy containerized apps with Azure Kubernetes Service & Azure Cosmos DB

September 27, 2022 Sep 27, 2022 09/27/22
Sandeep S. Nair
In today’s digital world, customers expect applications to be feature rich, tailored to their needs, and delivered quickly. For the modern-day business to survive and thrive, applications need to evolve quickly, scale fast and be highly resilient. Businesses need swift innovation through cloud-native architectures to meet these growing ...

IntelliJ support for Azure Cosmos DB!

September 22, 2022 Sep 22, 2022 09/22/22
Theo van Kraay
We're excited to announce that the Azure ToolKit for IntelliJ plugin now includes support for Azure Cosmos DB! IntelliJ IDEA is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java, Kotlin, Groovy, and other JVM-based languages. The Azure plugin allows Java developers to easily develop, configure, test, and deploy highly available and ...

Load and visualize Covid-19 case data with the integrated Power BI experience

September 8, 2022 Sep 8, 2022 09/8/22
Paul DeCarlo
How have major cities like London and New York been affected by Covid-19 and how can we use historical data to explore how these effects might impact us in a post-Covid world?  This was the question posed at a Microsoft Data + AI Hackathon held in partnership with the University of Oxford and Observable HQ at the New York City Reactor Meetup ...

Announcing General Availability of Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache

August 31, 2022 Aug 31, 2022 08/31/22
Justine Cocchi
Reduce costs and latency for read-heavy workloads with Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache, an in-memory cache that’s now generally available. In addition to increasing speed and decreasing costs, adding an integrated cache simplifies your architecture and application complexity, allowing you to focus on building your business logic. The ...

Intra-account container copy jobs for Core (SQL) and Cassandra API accounts (Preview)

August 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022 08/30/22
Shweta Nayak
Announcing the preview for Intra-account container copy jobs. This functionality helps create offline copies of containers for Azure Cosmos DB for both Core (SQL) API and Cassandra API using Azure CLI. When to use The container copy feature for Azure Cosmos DB is helpful for the following scenarios: Steps to use ...

Write a Python data layer with Azure Cosmos DB and FastAPI

August 19, 2022 Aug 19, 2022 08/19/22
Abhinav Tripathi
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build a data layer in Python for Azure Cosmos DB using FastAPI, a web framework for building and testing Python APIs. To demonstrate this, we will leverage the To Do App Quickstart in our docs. This app shows simple CRUD operations (insert, update, list and delete) using a simple data model for a To...

Azure Cosmos DB SQL Studio is a Hidden Gem!

August 16, 2022 Aug 16, 2022 08/16/22
Jay Gordon
This post was authored by Microsoft MVP and Azure Cosmos DB community champion Hasan Savran.  You can reach Hasan (@SavranWeb) on Twitter.  Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API has many features that can help you with your cloud projects in Microsoft Azure. Most of these features; especially the new ones are at the SDK level, and you need to ...

Run parallel CRUD operations with Python Async IO for Azure Cosmos DB

July 12, 2022 Jul 12, 2022 07/12/22
Khelan Modi
Async IO support for Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK, an important and much-anticipated capability, is now generally available (GA) for Python developers, data scientists, and any other professional that uses our Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK. Benefits Async IO support makes it easier to run multiple IO operations in parallel. The main advantage ...

Introducing a new system function and optimized query operators

June 21, 2022 Jun 21, 2022 06/21/22
Justine Cocchi
The query engine in Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API now has a new system function and optimizations for a set of query operations to better use the index. In this post we’ll cover the new DateTimeBin function as well as improvements to GROUP BY, DISTINCT, OFFSET LIMIT, and JOIN. These example scenarios are for Contoso, a fictional online ...