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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  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. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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