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About the authors:  Akash & Alp We are working with many customers who for a variety of reasons such as not having to deal with patching the O/S, upgrades, scalability, etc. are looking to move their Cassandra IaaS workloads to Azure and one of the destinations is Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API. We wanted to explore and dive deeper into perfo...

A new video by Microsoft Mechanics explores ways to get started with Azure Cosmos DB and build a NoSQL database for high performance and scalability.

In this blog, we'll take a look at tips for query pagination in Azure Cosmos DB. Pagination is the process of dividing a large volume of data across many small pages.

Discover best practices to help improve the read performance of Spring applications when using the new Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB v3 for Core (SQL) API.

Develop your next app database locally using the Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator on Docker (preview) with Visual Studio Code. This post includes a sample with GitHub repository and a step-by-step video.

Learn how to leverage Azure Cosmos DB as ASP.NET Session State provider and distributed cache by using the existing caching extension on your applications

Check out the latest recommendations for using Java V4 Cassandra Driver with Azure Cosmos DB's Cassandra API. We've created a custom Java extension that you can implement without any code changes, for a better overall experience.

In this post, learn about the ways you can initialize your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK client to avoid latency spikes in your first operations.

You can now use composite indexes in Azure Cosmos DB to optimize additional cases of the most common inefficient queries! Anytime you have a slow or high RU query, you should first consider whether the query can be optimized with a composite index.

There are a variety of ways to try Azure Cosmos DB for free, in both production and non-production environments. Explore the options and find the one that best suits your needs.