17: Cosmos DB: Pricing, Optimization, and Thinking Differently

Development Best Practices

In this episode we'll be continuing our talk with Mike Benkovich, Microsoft Azure MVP and Azure Cloud Engineer, about Cosmos DB. If you haven't listened to Episode Sixteen of our podcast on Cosmos DB, I would encourage you to do so before listening to this one. In that episode, Mike talks through the basics of Cosmos DB and details on when, and when not to, use it.
In this episode, Mike dives into pricing and performance optimization, as well as RUs and serverless.
1:10 Cosmos DB pricing explanation (and risk)
2:40 Performance optimization to reduce cost
5:15 How paying by RUs works in a popular website
6:25 Provisioning RUs in advance
7:55 Cosmos DB Serverless
9:40 Think Differently
Mike's 5 minutes to {code} videos: https://www.benkotips.com/5min
Special thanks to Josie Bigler for his help in preparing for this podcast.
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