Cosmos DB Readiness Resources

Fundamentals

• What is Cosmos DB - Azure Cosmos DB Essentials Season 1 (Self-Paced) (6 minutes)
  Join Mustafa Branch for an exploration of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB and to learn why and when developers are choosing to leverage NoSQL data in their applications.
• Use Cases - Azure Cosmos DB Essentials Season 1 (Self-Paced) (6 minutes)
  Join Mustafa Branch from Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB to discuss a few real use cases for Azure Cosmos DB from the healthcare, manufacturing, and retail industries.
• Cosmos DB Migration Options (Self-Paced) (1 Hour)
  Learn how to load data from various data sources to Azure Cosmos DB using multiple APIs.
• Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB (Self-Paced) (1 Hour)
  Learn the basic concepts of Cosmos DB
• Getting started with SQL Queries (Self-Paced) (1 Hour)
  Learn how to query data by writing queries using the Structured Query Language (SQL) as a JSON query language in Cosmos DB
• CosmosDB Capacity (RU) Planner (Self-Paced) (0.5 Hour)
  This calculator offers you a quick estimate of the workload cost on Azure Cosmos DB

Associate

• Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB (Self-Paced) (8 Hours)
  Learn how to create Azure Cosmos DB resources with the appropriate consistency levels, choose and create a partition key, and perform data operations by using the .NET SDK V3 for Azure Cosmos DB.
• Consistency - Azure Cosmos DB Essentials Season 1 (Self-Paced) (7 minutes)
  Join Mustafa Branch from Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB to learn about data consistency in Azure Cosmos DB.
• Partition Strategy - Azure Cosmos DB Essentials Season 2 (Self-Paced) (8 minutes)
  The performance of your application database is greatly impacted by how the database is partitioned. Join Mustafa Branch for an exploration of #Microsoft #Azure Cosmos DB and to learn best practices for choosing the right partition key and building a strong partition strategy for your application’s database.
• Understanding Azure Cosmos DB’s APIs - Azure Cosmos DB Essentials Season 2 (Self-Paced) (7 minutes)
  Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB offers multiple database APIs - Core (SQL) API, API for MongoDB, Cassandra API, Gremlin API, and Table API. These APIs give modern application developers the flexibility to choose between document, key-value, graph, and column-family NoSQL data models. Join Mustafa Branch for an exploration of the APIs offered by Azure Cosmos DB and how to pick the right API for your application or workload.
• Schema Design Strategy - Azure Cosmos DB Essentials Season 2 (Self-Paced) (11 minutes)
  As a NoSQL database, Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB offers flexible schema, which enables faster development. Join Mustafa Branch for an exploration of best practices around normalizing, or de-normalizing when working in Azure Cosmos DB.
• Migrating Cassandra and MongoDB to Cosmos DB (Self-Paced) (1 Hour)
  Learn how to migrate Cassandra and MongoDB workloads to Cosmos DB.
• Understanding the latest updates in Azure Cosmos DB API for Mongo DB and best practices (Self-Paced) (1 Hour)
• Cosmos DB Real Time Advanced Analytics (Self-Paced) (8 Hours)
  Learn to design a data pipeline solution that leverages Cosmos DB for both the scalable ingest of streaming data, and the globally distributed serving of both pre-scored data and machine learning models.
• Azure Cosmos DB Workshops (Self-Paced) (2 Days)
  This is a set of presentations and hands-on labs for Cosmos DB

Expert

• Multi-Region Application use case - Azure Cosmos DB Essentials Season 3 (Self-Paced) (5 minutes)
  Explore software development tips and tricks for building and deploying a multi-region application with Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Web Apps, and Azure Cosmos DB.
• Data Modeling and Partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB (Self-Paced) (0.5 hours)
  Learn the key strategies for modeling and partitioning data effectively in Azure Cosmos DB.

Community Resources

• Implementing NoSQL Databases in Azure (Self-Paced) (8 Hours)
• Learning Azure Cosmos DB (Self-Paced) (8 Hours)

Conferences

• Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2022 (Self-Paced)
  All the videos from Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2022
• Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2021 (Self-Paced)
  All the videos from Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2021

Older Resources from Ignite 2019

• A developer’s guide to Azure Cosmos DB (Self-Paced) (1 Hour)
• What’s the latest with Azure Cosmos DB (Self-Paced) (1 Hour)
• Multi-master and global distribution with Azure Cosmos DB (Self-Paced) (1 Hour)
• Building event driven apps with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions (Self-Paced) (1 Hour)
• Data modelling and partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB (Self-Paced) (1 Hour)