Nick Chapsas | All things Azure & .NET

  1. 15 MORE things you should know about Azure Cosmos DB

    It's been 8 months since my last blog post of that nature and I think it's time for a new one. It is also my second most popular post so if you like them, I'll write them. Let's go straight to the point. Here are 15 more things you should…
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  2. Understanding optimistic concurrency in Cosmos DB

    Introduction So Cosmos DB is fast. Like really fast. By design CosmosDB operations don't lock your collection or your documents when you are changing them. This means that Cosmos operations can be really fast but it also means that 2 different services or even actions can change a single document…
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  3. Using Cosmonaut's Azure Functions Change Feed Trigger

    Introduction You can write your own custom Azure Function triggers. I didn't know that this was a thing until very recently. This is amazing and it opens insane opportunities for some really cool ideas I have. The thing I always wanted to do however was to create a Cosmonaut based…
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  4. Synchronising your Cosmos DB into Azure Redis Cache using Azure Functions

    The problem So let's create a hypothetical. A very common scenario for any service, is that there is the requirement to access data that is stored is some sort of database hundreds of times per minute. Our service of choice for this blog will be a game service like Steam,…
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  5. Implementing server side CosmosDB pagination in a Blazor Web App (Part 2: Next/Previous Page)

    Introduction This blog is the second part in a series of blogs that will cover CosmosDB pagination. If you want to know more about page number and page size pagination or the prerequisites for what we are doing please take a look at the previous blog covering the premise and…
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  6. Implementing server side CosmosDB pagination in a Blazor Web App (Part 1: Page Number and Page Size)

    Introduction So let's go straight to the point. A few blogs ago I wrote a blog about the fluent pagination capabilities of Cosmonaut. In this 2-part blog series we will actually go in detail on how you can implement different types of server side pagination with Cosmos DB in your…
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  7. Exploring the "secret" CosmosDB Stored Procedures

    If you've read any of my blog posts, you might have noticed that I'm hungry for knowledge. What you might also have noticed is that I like CosmosDB. One of my findings when I was looking into the Bulk Executor library was that it was calling, what appears to be,…
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  8. CosmosDB action-level autoscaling with Cosmonaut

    Introduction Disclaimer: This feature will probably be removed from Cosmonaut when CosmosDB launches their built in auto-scaling logic. I know, I know. If misused this can be potentially a really bad idea. It is also experimental. For that reason I want to put up a extra disclaimer. Use this at…
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