Tag: CosmosDB

Azure Exam DP-420: Study Guide Designing and Implementing CloudNative Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB (Beta)

The following will be my study guide for the exam along with the following labs:-

https://azurecosmosdb.github.io/labs/

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Design and Implement Data Models (35–40%)

Design and implement a non-relational data model for Azure Cosmos DB Core API

Remember a lot of this content is covered in the following GitHub labs:-

https://azurecosmosdb.github.io/labs/

Enjoy!

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Azure CosmosDB – Quick Start Demo App

So one of the hottest thing in Azure these days is without doubt CosmosDB, Cosmos DB is

A database for extremely low latency and massively scalable applications anywhere in the world, with native support for NoSQL

To get started with your very first Azure CosmosDB

  • go into the portal and click ass on Azure CosmosDB
  • give your new database an id
  • choose an API from the options available
    • SQL
    • MongoDB
    • Casandra
    • Azure Table
    • Gremlin (graph)
  • select your Subscription
  • select a resource group / create a new one
  • choose a location
  • optionally turn on geo-redundancy
  • click pin to pin this to your dashboard

For this blog post I chose the SQL API and left geo-redundancy off.


Ok so once you’ve done this click on Quick Start

 

Now you’ll see that you can download a sample app using .Net, .Net Core, Xamarin, Java, node.js and Python which will download code for you to play around with and create a to-do app.

I chose .Net and downloaded the code to my machine and opened it up with Visual Studio, run the code and you have a working to-do application hitting your newly created Azure CosmosDB up in Azure.

Time to go play with Azure CosmosDB, enjoy.