Scaling throughput in Azure Cosmos DB

By Dustin Ward

What is an RU and how are they consumed? RUs measure the cost of both read and write operations against your Cosmos container. Discover more about RUs and Scaling throughput in Azure Cosmos DB. In Azure Cosmos DB, provisioned throughput is represented as request units/second (RU/s, plural: RUs). RUs measure the cost of both read and…

‪Establish bidirectional communication with billions of IoT devices. ‬

By Dustin Ward

Use device-to-cloud telemetry data to understand the state of your devices and define message routes to other Azure services without writing any code. In cloud-to-device messages, reliably send commands and notifications to your connected devices and track message delivery with acknowledgement receipts. Device messages are sent in a durable way to accommodate intermittently connected devices.

Azure Cosmos DB – Tunable Consistency

By Dustin Ward

There are a lot of good reasons to use Azure Cosmos DB, as it offers a uniquely ‘single pane of glass’ over the increasingly ‘polyglot persistence’ world of enterprise data. One of the innovative ways in which it does this is with the tunable consistency feature for persisting data (see here for the documented 5…