Azure for Developers: Cosmos DB

39mBeginner2019-12-09

Authors

Sidney Andrews

Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Training Regional Lead

Course details

Azure Cosmos DB is one of the fastest-growing Azure services on the market. But even professionals with considerable experience setting up databases for organizations may have questions about this service's features, simply due to how different it is from other Microsoft home-grown data platforms. This course was designed to help answer these questions. Join instructor Sidney Andrews as he helps you get up and running with this fully managed and globally distributed database service. Sidney delves into the individual Cosmos DB APIs and models, as well as its architecture. He then covers a variety of key concepts, including how to configure security for your account, customize your account using key settings, and more.

Learning objectives
Azure Cosmos DB APIs
Key components of an Azure Cosmos DB account
Logical and physical partitions
Configuring an Azure Cosmos DB account for global scale
Determining appropriate throughput amounts for containers
Configuring security for your account
Configuring throughput
Index policies

Skills covered

Database DevelopmentDatabase ManagementAzureMicrosoftSoftware DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - What is Azure Cosmos DB
02 - What you should know

1. Overview

03 - Introducing Azure Cosmos DB
04 - Azure Cosmos DB APIs

2. Architecture

05 - Resource hierarchy
06 - Logical partitions
07 - Physical partitions

3. Concepts

08 - Global distribution
09 - Provisioned throughput
10 - Inverted tree indexing
11 - Security
12 - Challenge - Provision throughput
13 - Solution - Provision throughput

4. Configuration

14 - Consistency levels
15 - Configure throughput
16 - Index policies

Conclusion

17 - Next steps