Nick Chapsas | All things Azure & .NET

  1. (Video) How to save money in CosmosDB with Cosmonaut's Collection Sharing

    Hello everyone, in this video I will show you how you can get started with Cosmonaut's collection sharing in CosmosDB and .NET Core.…
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  2. 20 things you should know about Azure CosmosDB

    After a lot of reading (and a Pluralsight course) about CosmosDB and also a lot of chatting to other developers about this technology I came to a conclusion. Some people have only a vague understanding of what CosmosDB really is, which results in the same StackOverflow questions over and over…
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  3. (Video) Getting started with .NET Core and CosmosDB using Cosmonaut

    Video tutorial In this video i will show you how have fully working CRUD based on POCO objects in less than 2 minutes with Cosmonaut.…
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  4. How to easily start using CosmosDB in your C# application in no time with Cosmonaut

    I've used a lot of document based NoSQL databases. CosmosDB is by far my favourite, mainly because it's much more than that. Things like it's scale-ability, the different API options, the change feed or even the emulator that Microsoft provides are amazing. However, unless you are willing to dedicate a…
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  5. Clean up your .NET Core Startup with Scrutor

    It is undeniable that some of the best packages that are in any C# developer’s arsenal is created by the community. Just like any other developer that likes developing in his spare, I find myself testing around stuff and experimenting with ideas to see what might work. I recently…
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  6. Getting started: Deploying resources in Azure with ARM Templates

    Simple and easy resource provisioning One of the reasons I really like Azure is how easy it makes it to provision your infrastructure quickly and easily on the portal. However, what's even nicer is the support of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates for individual resources. What is an ARM template?…
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  7. Setting up Alerts using Application Insights (the new ones)

    In case you didn't know, you can set up Alerts in Application Insights. However what you probably also knew is that what you could do with them was very very (seriously, very) limited. Just to give you an example, here is a list of things you COULD NOT do with…
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  8. I made an entity store package for CosmosDB in C#: Cosmonaut

    I like CosmosDB, I really do. However I am not a fan of the Core CosmosDB SDK that Microsoft provides. It’s like the vanilla SQL connector. It’s cool and it can do a lot of things but I don’t necessarily want to use everything. Here’s my…
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