by Chad Michel | Sep 7, 2017 | Software Engineering
We have gone through quite a bit of Azure Cosmos-related posts the last few weeks, but we have skipped over the concept of partition keys in almost of the queries we have covered. Ignoring the partition key is probably fine for these small data sets, but for real...
by Chad Michel | Aug 30, 2017 | Software Engineering
In my first post, we performed some really basic CRUD queries against Azure Cosmos DB. In my second post, we went a little deeper and refined our queries. In this post, we are going to be using SQL to query Cosmos. Yep, SQL. First, we will rewrite our count method....
by Jeff Kodad | Aug 29, 2017 | Software Engineering
Make sure to check out part 1 of my series if you haven’t done so yet. I am a 30-year-old developer finishing my first year as a software engineer. I didn’t get where I am by any traditional means, but I’ve learned some things along the way that might encourage...
by Chad Michel | Aug 24, 2017 | Software Engineering
Our first post covering Azure Cosmos DB was pretty basic. If you noticed, our READ query was always returning all results. So even if we wanted to find a single item, we had to return all of the items. That plan has obvious problems. If we look at the code below, we...
by Chad Michel | Aug 21, 2017 | Software Engineering
.NET Core 2.0 is finally out, which finally closes the loop and create a very usable .NET Core. This quick blog post is a quick start for .NET Core 2.0. 1. Install VS Code. 2. Install .NET Core 2.0. 3. Fire up terminal. 4. Create a new solution. 5. Create a console...
by Chad Michel | Aug 17, 2017 | Software Engineering
Cosmos – κόσμος – the world, universe – John Jeffrey Dodson Lexicon (public domain) Cosmos means the entire world, so I wonder if Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s view of the entire world for data stores going forward. Sure, blob storage will...
