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Data for All - Azure Cosmos DB - Azure for Sure - S2 - Ep. 2
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Nov 1, 2023
Join this live session with Stephen SIMON and Sarah Dutkiewicz to discuss Azure Cosmos DB, its various APIs, and how to get started with it for free today, on Feb 9 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US). Session Description: Graph data, document data, data from Apache Cassandra, data from MongoDB, and even relational data - Azure Cosmos DB has a lot to offer. In this episode of the Azure for Sure show, host Stephen SIMON sits down with Sadukie to discuss Azure Cosmos DB, its various APIs, and how to get started with it for free today! GUEST SPEAKER Sarah Dutkiewicz - With over 20 years in the tech space, her experience runs the gamut from tech support, server administration, and data professional to software development and instructor. Having participated in a full spectrum of technical roles, She bridge gaps in communication and understanding and is a mentor and leader of both technical and non-technical teams. Currently, her sights are set on helping others learn how to work with data efficiently by developing simple yet sophisticated user experiences. C# Corner - Community of Software and Data Developers https://www.c-sharpcorner.com #CSharpCorner #CSharpTV #CosmosDB #Azure #AzureForSure
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Hi, everyone, and welcome back to Azure 4 Show Season 2
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As always, I'm your host, Simon, and we are back once again. And I am really, really excited for this episode of Azure 4 Show
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as I'm hosting someone for the very, very first time. I've been doing these live shows and virtual conferences
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over the past two and a half years, but it's surprising that I have not hosted our amazing guest for today
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She's someone who's going to talk about the Azure Cosmos DB today
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And for some of you who watch our shows at C Sharp Corner, you know, we stream the Azure
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Cosmos DB conference. We have some great friends at the Azure Cosmos DB team. And the moment we saw the Azure Cosmos DB sessions, like, yeah, we're going to have more
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Cosmos DB sessions at C Sharp Corner. So for the folks who are joining us for this time, there's a comment section
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You can always go ahead and drop your questions, anything that you have. and uh without any further ado let's go invite sarah who is a microsoft mvp she's a published
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technical author of a powershell book she does podcasts live coding games she speaks at conferences
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she's heck of an organized she's a speaker she's a community active uh advocate and uh yeah she's
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one of the very active speaker and awarded by such nice she is a rock star so hi sarah welcome to the
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Azure Parshia Live show. Hello. Thank you for bringing me here. Thanks for accepting the patience, Sarah
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I'm really excited to have you today. I see you're going to talk about Azure Cosmos DBN
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We're really excited for it, right? So quick question. By the way, where are you joining us today from
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I am joining from Northeast Ohio in the USA. Well, USA, what time is it
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It is 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Oh, it's 11.30 p.m. at my place
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Oh, late night. Late night, yeah. All right, Sarah. I know this live show, it's straight for just 14, 15, 30 minutes to deliver the content, right
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So I'm not going to take any more of your time. I see you have shared your screen. I'm going to drop it to the stream now
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Oh, wow. That's me. That's you. That looks good. Oh, wow. I'm not going to take much of your time
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The show is all yours. Awesome. Thank you. Well, hello and welcome
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For those of you who aren't familiar with who I am. So I am Sarah Dukavich
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I go by Suduki in the community. I'm a Microsoft MVP in developer technologies, have been since 2009
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I have my own consulting firm right now. I have a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering technology, so I went to school
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to make sure I could prove, hey, I know this stuff, but as you can see, 20 plus years in
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the field, I kind of know what I'm talking about nowadays. I organize conferences like Codemash and SturTrack
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I'm a speaker at many community events. I blog at suduki.com and dataadventure.com
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I am married to a geek, my husband's a tech director, and I have two kiddos as well
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But enough about me. We have about 25 minutes, and we are here to talk about Azure Cosmos DB
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I love talking about Azure Cosmos DB because it's one of those that people are like, well
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what is it? Well, if you notice in the title, I said data for all
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And you're probably like, but for all? For everyone? Yeah, yeah, for all, I promise you
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So what we're taking a look at with this is, first off, they have a bunch of different APIs, and they serve different services
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So the document data, so there's two different APIs that we'll talk about for that
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That's the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
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There's columnar data, which is Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra. There's Apache, Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin, which is graph data
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There's key value data, which is Azure Cosmos DB for table. And then the most recent one, as of October, there's now relational data at any scale available
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in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. Now you'll probably see me keep going, all right, how many words did I get out
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Make sure I get the whole name. But the APIs, just remember them. They're Azure Cosmos DB 4
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And then whatever they're for. Now, for those of you who are like, well, what's Azure Cosmos DB
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I call it the flagship NoSQL offering in Azure. Like when I think NoSQL and I think Azure
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Azure Cosmos DB is the thing that comes to mind. It's got turnkey global distribution
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It's got really fast reads and writes, single digit millisecond reads and writes
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It allows you to scale your storage and throughput. it. You have both manual and automatic failover capabilities. It's got five well-defined consistency
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models. It is ytics ready, which means that you can take your data over. There is a link
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between Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse. There's an Azure Synapse link that you can use for that
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There's security. There's encryption. Did I mention that it supports relational databases as well
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and most of all you're going to hear this a lot which is it can be tried for free as in
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no credit card required as in all you need is a Microsoft account and a GitHub account
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Now they have comprehensive SLAs so again less than 10 milliseconds and then you're going to
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see five nines for your high availability guaranteed throughput guaranteed consistency. You might be wondering who's using Cosmos DB
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Who's using Azure Cosmos DB? You going to see all these different companies You seeing some big names here too So you seeing things like Ford and Coca and Domino Pizza Can you tell it around lunchtime here when I start going down to the pizzas and the beverages
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But you can see these are big names that are using Azure Cosmos DB
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And it's not just the big names, but small names too. I can tell you I was working for a smaller company
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when I first saw Azure Cosmos DB. But we used it in our e-commerce platform
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Okay, so Azure Cosmos DB, One of the things that can support is document data
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So when it comes to document data, the first API that we want to talk about is the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
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This also used to be known as the SQL API or the core API
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This is your base for Azure Cosmos DB. So what you need to know about it, so think of it as storing JSON documents
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You have a hierarchy here. So you have the hierarchy for it starts with the account level
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This is the highest. So this is where you set your API. So when you create your Azure Cosmos DB account, you have to choose your API
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That's tied to the account. Within that account, you can have multiple databases
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Within the databases, you can have multiple containers. And with the containers, the containers have multiple items
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Now, with us only having 30 minutes total to talk through all this
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I'm not going to be getting into a lot of the deep dives on this, but I do have a lot of slides and links to help with that
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All right, so we talked about the hierarchy, how it's account databases, containers, and items
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The names, containers, and items may change depending on the API, but for the NoSQL API
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that's what they're called. The JSON does automatic indexing for you regardless of your data model
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Again you've got the benefits of ingesting and serving your data in milliseconds
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JSON, JSON under the covers. You will use it, SQL syntax, it is not like your SQL server relational database SQL syntax
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but it looks similar enough. Azure Cosmos DB has this feature called a change feed
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I call it the hidden gem of Azure Cosmos DB because it allows you to take a look at all
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the changes that are coming in, and then you can do what you need with those changes
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So if you want to do event sourcing, if you want to move your data from one container to another to create materialized views, things like that, you can do that with the Azure Cosmos
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DB change feed, which works also with the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL API
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You'll see on some of my slides I mentioned the free tier. The free tier is something that you can select on one Azure Cosmos DB account for your account
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It has some limitations for each of the APIs. But just so you're aware, if you see free tier, most of the APIs, the free tier is on them
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The only one that doesn't, we'll talk about that when we get there. Okay, so NoSQL, that's the core, that's the heart of Azure Cosmos DB
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Who's the other document data endpoint, the API for MongoDB? So if you're familiar with MongoDB, if you're using things in the C-sharp world, we have MongoDB.driver
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You can use that to talk to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
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It has the five nines availability and a lot of the other things being built on top of Azure Cosmos DB
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but some things to note is that it is got three different ways to be provisioned or three different
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ways to work with MongoDB. Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. It's provision, autoscale with zero
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warmup, and serverless. There is free tier available on this. There are some features
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that aren't supported. I'm going to put a link in chat that I know Simon will share with you all
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And that will take you to what I also have the QR code for, which is where some of the
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features aren't supported. You can see the chart of yes supported or no supported
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The Azure Cosmos DB team has done a great job of documenting everything in the system
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and pointing out things like, okay, this doesn't work and here's why. Okay
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All right, columnar data. So this is your column stores. This API is known as Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra. So with this particular one, think of it as its fully managed serverless Apache Cassandra
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If you're used to Apache Cassandra and using Node tools to manage your Apache Cassandra, you don't need that here
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Azure Cosmos DB is fully managed, so that is handled for you
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For those coming in from the Cosmos mind, not straight away into Cassandra
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Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra uses a query language called Cassandra Query Language
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It looks similar to SQL, but it has its own quirks, just like going from language to language
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So think of Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra as it's got the benefits of being built on top of Azure Cosmos DB while still being able to use your Apache Cassandra tools
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Now from a C Sharp standpoint, I want to make sure that you're aware I have a GitHub repository that I'll share a link for at the end with a bunch of C Sharp demos for all APIs except this one
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The demo that I could find for this relies on .NET Framework 4 something and .NET Core
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It had no support in there for .NET 6. I checked the DataStax website
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DataStax does a C-sharp driver. I'm not finding anything good for .NET 6
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I did leave my code in there so you could see what we attempted, but it doesn't work well with that
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Something to note with Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra is that it supports durable commits
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whereas Apache Cassandra by itself does not. All right, we'll post that link in the chat as well
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These slides will also be available after the show in the GitHub repository
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Again, links there. So if you're just like, oh, I don't have these links, or I can't scan the QR fast enough, rest assured, we've got you covered
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All right, graph data. So graph data, I have a quick story on that
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and that's talking about what we see here, which is the graph. graph data, think about it as you're not looking at like table relationships
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you're looking at the relationships within the data. So the story I like to tell is how I heard
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about C-sharp corner. So I'm Saduki and Simon here is our co-host and we have a friend in common
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named Joe Godagno. And I'm sure if you've seen some of the stuff here in the community, you've
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probably heard of Joe. And so for me to learn more about C-sharp corner, I've been keeping an eye on
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what he does. Well, I know Joe, and Joe knows Simon. So I know Simon through Joe. This is a graph
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This is, these are things, these are vertexes, or V, and these arrows are relationships, also known
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as edges, or E. And so we can look at the relationships between things and how they go
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from there. Now I've done many user group talks on the Gremlin API stuff so if you have questions
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about that afterwards feel free to hit me up and I'll answer what I can. The demos that included
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in the repo for this are based off of the demos of the quick starts but I also have a few other
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demos for Gremlin With Apache Gremlin so it is Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin is the API name the gremlin comes from the Apache TinkerPop project TinkerPop is where the Gremlin server the Gremlin client live the Gremlin console
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I just have a link also in chat for this one. So this operates, again, on the concept of vertices and edges, or like I call them, things and relationships
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You use the Gremlin syntax. So you're using their g.v, g.e, and navigating with ins and outs and both
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and being able to loop and navigate until you hit a certain point. All of that is done in Gremlin syntax
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Now, in the demo, we'll use gremlin.net, but notice they support other languages too
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So Java, Python, Node, PHP, Go, and a console. Same goes for all these other tools that I'm showing you
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If we have time for the demos, just so you can see what the code looks like
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you'll be able to see I'm using the tools for that particular product
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I'm not using Azure Cosmos DB's SDK to access these other different APIs
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only for NoSQL's API. The rest have their own SDKs and tools
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Okay. So the next API is key value data
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A key value data, you may be thinking, hmm, I think we have something in Azure already
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What about Azure Table Storage? Is that related to this? Well, let's look at Azure Cosmos DB for Table
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So Azure Cosmos DB for Table is going to use that same table model as Azure Table Storage
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So it's a managed service. It has the benefits of Azure Cosmos DB plus the familiarity of
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Azure Table Storage. In fact, in the demo, we use the Azure Table SDK rather than using the
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Azure Cosmos DB SDK. Why is that? Because the Table API, when you're working with Table Storage
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Azure Table's code is what you're going to be using in C-sharp. But the difference between
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Azure Cosmos DB for table and Azure table storage, you're getting better SLAs. So you're getting your
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five nines. You're getting support for consumption and provision capacity. You've got your consistency
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levels. So in the Azure table storage, you have strong primary consistency and eventual secondary
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consistency set up. But in Azure Cosmos DB, there are five different consistency levels
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There's more indexing support with Azure Cosmos DB for Table. There's no upper limit on the throughput
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There's more operations per second per table supported. So Azure Cosmos DB for Table, if you're working with Table at a large scale
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you should consider Azure Cosmos DB for Table. It uses the same prod operations as well
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Grab the links for assignment as well. And that is this one
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all right and the newest of them is azure cosmos d for postgresql they announced it at
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ignite in october of 2022 and it is relational data at any scale and this is something that
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people are like but cosmos big data lots and lots of data really relational data in any scale even
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Even at the smaller scale? Yeah, even at the smaller scale. What's nice about Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL is that it is PostgreSQL under the covers
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It is PostgreSQL on its nodes. They are standalone servers, but they are powered by this extension called Citus
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Now if you're in the PostgreSQL world and you're like, but Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
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didn't we already have an offering for this in Azure? You did
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It used to be known as Azure Database for PostgreSQL Hyperscale. Now it is Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
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And the documents do redirect. So if you're just like, let me check those docs, you'll see that they redirect here
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Relational data at any scale, because it's PostgreSQL under the covers. So you have that PostgreSQL support
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You have your relational database. The difference is once you get Citus involved, now you can scale your data horizontally
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And then you can make it so it's optimized for your queries by partitioning and sharding your data in a way that makes sense
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Now, with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, so it can be started with either a single node or a multi-node setup
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If you start with a multi-node setup, then you can scale it out to multiple worker nodes
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They have coordinator nodes and worker nodes. The worker nodes are the ones that store the shards
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The coordinator node knows which of the workers have which shards. The coordinator node knows which workers to engage based on queries
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You can set it up with a single node as well if you're just starting out
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If you're working with a small amount of data and you don't really need to take advantage of the horizontal scaling, don't panic
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You can still use this here. because each, like I said, each node is a standalone Postgres server
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There's a lot to get into with the architecture of it and stories for that
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I do have a link that I want to share with you all. It is on Microsoft Learn
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So there's a learning path for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgresQL. That'll give you a good introduction of what Azure Cosmos DB is capable of with this API
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and also what you need to consider when you're dealing with scaling and horizontal scaling, the sharding
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How are we on time? All right, I have a few minutes that I can actually show you the code
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So I'm going to bring my code over. All right, so this is my Visual Studio code
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I have a folder for demos and each of the APIs will be within their folders
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You can see with Gremlin, for example. Let's pull up the CS project Y so you can see that the reference there, the only things
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I'm pulling in are gremlin.net and then newtonsoft.json. That's just so that I can map some fields
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But other than that, I'm not dealing with the Azure Cosmos DB SDK here
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I'm using the Gremlin driver to talk to the Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin API
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And if I wanted to run these, these are all .NET console apps
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So I can go into my demos folder and I can go into my Gremlin folder and I can do a .NET run
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And you'll have access to the GitHub repo at the end of here
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You'll see orange. Oh, hold on. I have to set up my environment variable
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So all these demos work on environment variables. And the environment variables depend on the demo
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Sometimes it's a connection string. Sometimes it's a hostname, username, password. you'll see the get environment calls in there
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So what you seeing here when I do a run this is calling out to Azure Cosmos DB and executing some queries And then this is the response that is coming out What awesome with
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this demo is that it shows things like, all right, what's the query that you're running? What's the result coming back? And then how long does it take to come back plus the charge for
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running it? So you can see what I'm working with here in the Gremlin API. Notice that the response
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you're seeing here, we're working with JSON. So if you remember when I talked about Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
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how it's JSON under the covers, it is JSON under the covers for all of the APIs
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Sometimes I do another demo where I use, so Sauron Web has a Cosmos DB extension
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that you can run in Visual Studio Code where you can query your APIs. And I've done queries where I've shown
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that you can query the Gremlin API and get the JSON back using SQL
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But don't do that because it's one of those that they're optimized to work
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for these queries that are coming in. But you can see, like, okay, I want to know all the first names
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for example, of all my vertices. So you can see the results that way
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The one I like to talk about with the navigation. So I have it set up so that I know Joe
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Joe knows Simon. how do I know Simon? So the query is, you can see here that Joe knows a person knows a person is a
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query. This is the query that I want to show here, the g.v.suduki. So starting at the circle that is
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labeled Suduki, keep going, following those arrows until I hit Simon. How do we get there
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So this is what it looks like in Gremlin. So you have that g.v. Let me see if I can zoom it up a little bit more so you guys can see it
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There we go. So thank you. So this g.v. Suduki, repeat, out, which means keep going out until it says, okay, when do we want to hit a stop
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So when you need to go from point A to point B and you don't know what's in between
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this is where you do a loop of repeat and where to stop at so we can see that this now there's
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json reading json can be kind of gross but as developers we're kind of used to these kind of
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things for debugging purposes so you can see it goes from me to joe then from joe to simon
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so this is what it looks like again with gremlin with mongo if i look at my program cs you can see
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all I have is MongoDB driver. So I'm doing nothing special here
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I'm just using the MongoDB driver to talk to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
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In my program, that's CS files for each of these APIs, I try to get most of the CRUD apps represented
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so that you can see what's going on. And so you can get started with it today
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Now, these are just my demos. There's also a ton of quick starts in the Azure Cosmos DB docs
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that will also help you get moving today. Okay. So just so you can see, no tricks up my sleeve
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things under the covers. This one does use the Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB SDK
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but that's because this is NoSQL. This is its actual, the base of it all
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It is its main thing. Okay. And then Postgres uses the NPGSQL
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And then finally, table uses Azure.data.tables. Now, all of my demos in this repo I've done for .NET 6 because that is the long-term support
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The exception, like I said, is Cassandra. Cassandra, I tried to move it to .NET 6, but its driver isn't supporting it
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So be aware of that. All right, so no tricks up my sleeve, but I know we're also only so much time
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So I can deep dive in most of these APIs. If you have more questions, feel free to ping me on LinkedIn or Twitter
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I've got links to share on how you can find me on those. I will gladly answer as many questions as I can
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And what I don't know, I'll be able to show you where it is in the community as well, all we can talk with
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All right, so you want to try Azure Cosmos DB for free? Check this out
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So Azure Cosmos DB for free. Let me post the link so that I'm going to post that
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So Azure Cosmos DB for free. This is a screenshot. The next couple slides are just screenshots of what happens when you sign up for free
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Again, to show you no tricks up my sleeve, to show you no credit card
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So what I did is I went to that URL that I posted and it takes you to try Azure Cosmos DB for free
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Now I highlighted the recommended APIs and others because you might want to try an API that is not on the recommended
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Rest assured if you check under others, you'll see that there. This requires a Microsoft account or a GitHub account
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Then when we go to tell it to create, the next thing you'll see is consent
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For me, I tried to do a Postgres trial, and so that's what you're seeing here
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So am I going to allow them to access my Microsoft account
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Yeah, that's fine, but no credit card is needed for that. Just so you're aware, if you already have a Microsoft account, an Azure account
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and you want to do the trial, you can still do that trial. Just be aware that this is going to be what's known as a sandbox trial
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So if you're in an Azure account and you aren't sure where your trial went for Cosmos
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you'll probably have to go in the upper right corner where your account is until it switched directory and switch it to whatever the directory name is
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In my case, I looked for my subscription. I didn't see it under my general subscriptions
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and so that's how I found it to do switch directory. But the sandbox trial, it tells you how long you have
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This here, to get started, you have to change your password here. This change your password is changing your password on the database
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So for me, I have a Postgres API spun up. I need to set my administrator password, which I already did
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But just so you're aware when you see this, I got to change my password. It's for the server itself
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It has nothing to do with your account. Something else to note with these trials is that they are limited resources
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so you can do only so much. For the Azure Cosmos DB for Postgres, for example
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it spun up a single node configuration. I cannot scale that out to multiple nodes
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I cannot do multiple worker nodes, no high availability. So you are limited in the trial to what you can do
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but it is enough for you to get started and to work with it and to see. The demos that I have in my repo
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the demos for the quick starts are fine for this trial. So be aware of that
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Make sure there are any questions. Not yet, okay. Now suppose you wanna learn more, again
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Short period of time, not a lot to cover, but there's a lot of other resources out there
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There's the Azure Cosmos DB Global User Group. They are located on Meetup
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It is a virtual user group, and they have a meeting next week on Valentine's Day where I will be talking about Azure Cosmos DB for Postgres
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but they also have talks on all sorts of other things from indexing to data modeling to the various APIs
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to the conferences going on about Cosmos and everything else under the sun
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It is a great community. It is a welcoming community. So I would highly recommend that you check them out
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If you want to learn more about Azure Cosmos DB and the various APIs
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but you're not sure where to get started and you're like a quick start might not necessarily
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be what I need. There are also the learning paths and modules on Microsoft Learn
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And this goes for anything again from the various API specific things to configuring storage and
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prepping for the Azure Cosmos DB certification. All sorts of different options to explore for
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learning more about Azure Cosmos DB. If you're just getting started with Azure Cosmos DB
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there's a series called Azure Cosmos DB Essentials. It's on YouTube. There are three seasons
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where you get to join Mark and Mustafa and learn more about how does Azure Cosmos DB work
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What are the things you need to be aware of under the covers? How can you tune things
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So that is on YouTube. Share that link as well. There's the Azure Cosmos DB developer site, so developer.azurecosmosdb.com
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So that where we have any developer resource that you need for Azure Cosmos DB more guidance on it They have great links for that
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There's a GitHub repo as well. So I put these slides plus all of these links plus the demos
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as you saw in my Visual Studio Code, are all available on GitHub. It is a public repo
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so feel free to check it out. I will be adding more documentation within the code after this presentation
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but just so you're aware that the code is available right now, these slides are available right now
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and you can try Azure Cosmos DB for free right now. If you have any other questions about Azure Cosmos DB
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feel free to reach out to me. Like I said, the community is great. I can help you navigate it
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You can find me on Twitter as Suduki or on LinkedIn as Suduki as well
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Any questions? That was great
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That was a rocket speech. I want you to catch some breath because I don't think you even stopped for even like 10 seconds, right
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and you have cursed me throughout the show for giving only 25 minutes
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I was gonna say I'm just like okay I can't go deep diving through any of these because I know
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we're on a time limit here but I do have a ton of links for you all to explore so as I'm sure
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you're seeing I'm like oh no she's got more links and more links I've never dropped so many links
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ever I'll be honest yes that's what happened yeah but I think you covered a lot in just about last
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25 minutes. I can recall in the beginning you started with like there are so many APIs
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right? Maybe you can come from any background, right? Cosmos DB has gotten a lot of APIs
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for you and you showed so many big companies and also small companies using Cosmos DB And I think if you just a developer you just starting up as you share towards the end uh the free tier that cosmos db has i think it was released on only a year or
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maybe a year and a half back i remember uh earlier then they didn't have it but great and thanks for
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putting my and joe name in the examples thing i really understood that that is that is the time
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when i really started giving attention to your session that's one of those where i try to whenever
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I'm writing my demos. I try to make sure that it's relevant to the audience. So you're going to see in the GitHub repo that I mentioned Azure for sure
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that I mentioned some of the books that are on the website, and I mentioned today's event. And I mentioned Joe because Joe is my connection to your community
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And so, yeah, I try to make my examples relevant so that you can relate to them as you're working with them and going
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oh, yeah, that's exactly how this works. Yeah, I really loved it. And also, you know, the examples that you had in the end
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the demos are in fact, right? from across the board maybe from MongoDB or Postgres or whatever right and even also towards
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NoSQL so that's pretty helpful and having those those resources on the on the GitHub it's pretty
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easy right and and because I use Postgres but not for the Azure Cosmos DB but for the other open
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source backend as a service and I love Postgres so just I just want I just want to know Sarah
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someone who comes from a Postgres background like that's for me or for anyone for any background
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right what is going to be the very first step okay now that I've decided I want to go and start
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learning Cosmos DB maybe explore it right what is the first thing that maybe should what should
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the steps one should follow or to to get started I understood the entire ecosystem of Cosmos DB
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right but how what is the step one should I take I would say if you're not familiar with Azure
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Cosmos DB at all start with the Azure Cosmos DB essentials videos on YouTube oh yeah you share
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Understand the principles. Now, I guess I should qualify that. For all the APIs except Postgres, I would say use Azure Cosmos DB, the essentials, to get an understanding for the foundations
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Postgres is a different beast. So for that one I would say check out the learning path on Microsoft Learn for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgresQL There four modules there And it tell you all the little gotchas of okay I have my regular PostgreSQL database that maybe you running a PostgreSQL database at home because you playing with it
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and you really enjoy it. But now you want to take a look at it and go, okay, can I scale it
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You know, how does it work in Azure? So Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL would be able to show
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you that. Yeah. And I see, you know, they have quite a good extension and also some of the
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content of and you are speaking on a valentine's day come on i know i get to talk about post-press
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on the day of love yeah if you don't if you don't have hearts in in your sessions you don't have
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hearts in your slides i'm not i'm not joining your session i will make sure that there are hearts in
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there for the post-press session and you know sir i missed i just missed to put it in the summary
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but i really like on how you were just breaking down of the entire you know uh the the path of
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the, I should not say path, but the way you broke down, it's like you have an account
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in Cosmos DB, you have a database, then you have a container, and
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then you have an item. If someone just looks at these four steps, it
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gives you an idea on how Cosmos DB works, right? You have to do an
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account, create a database, then a container item, boom, bang, now you know
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how to work with it. Exactly. That's how cool this session was
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That was absolutely great, Sarah. Any final thing you want to plug in before we wrap up the show today
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So I would say if you want to learn more about Azure Cosmos DB for Postgres
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come to the Global Meetup user group or check me on Twitter at Tuduki and tweet me
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and I will send links your way as well. Yeah. All right
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So Sarah, that was really exciting. Thank you so much once again, accepting the invitation
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We hope to see you here in India along with Joe. That would be fun. We'll see if we can make that happen
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Yeah. All right, Sarah. Thank you so much once again. And thank you everyone for joining us today and watching us maybe later on
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We'll see you next Thursday, same time, only then take good review yourself and bye-bye
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Bye, take care. Bye, Sarah. See you
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