Azure Cosmos DB with MSFT Product Group

Fabian from the Microsoft Azure Product Group are visiting CPH and has been kind enough to spend the evening with us. Join us for an evening of tech talks and community connection.

AGENDA:
16.30 Registration and networking
16.55 Welcome
17.00 Cosmos DB with Fabian Meiswinkel
18.30 Networking and a light meal
19.00-ish End of program

SESSION
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database system. The service is designed to allow customers to elastically and horizontally scale both throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions, it offers guaranteed <10 ms latencies at the 99th percentile for point-lookups, 99.99% high availability and five well defined consistency models to developers. It’s been powering Microsoft’s internet-scale services for years.
In this session, we will cover how you can get the most out of Azure Cosmos DB by looking at best-practices and pitfalls to avoid. We will cover trade-offs for choosing good partition keys, global distribution, consistency management and managing costs. This session will equip you with invaluable insight in to building blazingly fast planet-scale applications with stories from real-world scenarios.

Level 300

SPEAKER:
Fabian Meiswinkel is a software engineer working on Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB team. He’s passionate about enabling developers and businesses to deliver new experiences through a novel globally distributed multi-model database service. Prior to joining the CosmosDB team, Fabian has worked as software engineer building the licensing service and other e-commerce infrastructure for Microsoft’s Xbox and Windows Store.

LOCATION:
We are happy that Microsoft are hosting this Meetup. Due to facility policy all guests must be registered. The reception at Microsoft have asked us to share the first and last names of all participants for pre-registration to avoid long wait time when you are arriving. Please make sure your correct name are registered at meetup.com.

REFRESHMENTS:
We are still working out the practicalities, and we hope to be able to offer a light meal.