Azure-Cosmos-Db

I really enjoyed recording another new Cosmos Down Under podcast this afternoon. It’s now edited and released. Show 15 features Saranya Sriram from the Azure Cosmos DB team. In the show, we discussed the AI and vector search capabilities in Azure Cosmos DB. About Saranya Saranya is the Asia product lead, and a principal product manager on the engineering team for Azure Cosmos DB, the database that powers OpenAI’s Chat GPT and similar AI-related workloads.

2025-03-03

The big week for Down Under podcasts continues. I really enjoyed recording another new Cosmos Down Under podcast this morning. It’s now edited and released. Show 14 features product manager in the Azure Cosmos DB team Patty Chow. Patty Chow specializes in open source. She leads the development and strategy for DocumentDB, the open-sourced engine powering vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. And that’s the key focus for this episode.

2025-02-15

It’s been yet another big week for Down Under podcasts. I really enjoyed recording another new Cosmos Down Under podcast this afternoon. It’s now edited and released. Show 13 features product group member Rakhi Thejraj. Rakhi is one of the Cosmos DB product managers and is involved in supporting the elasticity, and ingestion features, plus security initiatives and AI customer reach outs. I took this opportunity to discuss throughput provisioning and auto-scaling with her.

2025-02-06

It’s been another big week for Down Under podcasts. I really enjoyed recording another new Cosmos Down Under podcast this afternoon. It’s now edited and released. Show 12 features Farah Abdou. Farah is a Machine Learning Engineer and researcher in Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) with a proven track record of developing AI solutions that address social and environmental challenges. She has excelled in various roles, including teaching, engineering, and project management, contributing to impactful projects in natural language processing, computer vision, and database systems.

2025-01-25

It’s been a big week for Down Under podcasts. I really enjoyed recording another new Cosmos Down Under podcast this morning. It’s now edited and released. Show 11 features Azure Cosmos DB product manager Khelan Modi discussing the vector database and search features of Azure Cosmos DB, and particularly how that applies to large language models (LLMs). Khelan is a product manager on the Azure Cosmos DB team. He leads the AI and Portal (UI) initiatives for the Vector Database service, Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore.

2024-03-09

I had the great pleasure to get to also record another new Cosmos Down Under podcast this morning. It’s now edited and released. Show 10 features Azure Cosmos DB product manager Tara Bhatia discussing the elasticity features of Azure Cosmos DB. Tara and her team have been helpful lately, helping me understand the burst capacity features of the product better, and I thought it’d be great to have her on the show.

2024-03-08

Welcome to PG Down Under! I’ve worked with data most of my life and I love all aspects of it, and PostgreSQL has been part of it. Whenever possible, I’ve attended local PostgreSQL user groups to make sure I stay across what’s happening with it, even though my primary work was with SQL Server. PostgreSQL has been part of many client engagements over the years. For some time, I’ve been starting to build up a series of podcasts for PostgreSQL developers and DBAs.

2024-03-08

I had the great pleasure to get to also record another new Cosmos Down Under podcast last night. It’s now edited and released. Show 9 features Microsoft MVP Hugo Barona discussing his experiences in migrating clients to Azure Cosmos DB, and the lessons he’s learned along the way. I hope you enjoy it. You’ll find it here, along with previous episodes: https://cosmosdownunder.com

2023-11-12

I can’t tell you how many times lately, that I’ve seen people writing about service principles when they really mean service principals. These are entirely different concepts! I did a certification exam the other day, and it was asking about service principles. I was left wondering how many people had reviewed that before it was released. But what’s worse, is when people bake the wrong one into code libraries that others need to use.

2023-08-11

I recently noticed a blog post from Jay Gordon that was calling out interesting content from Blaize Stewart on antipatterns for development with Azure Cosmos DB. I thought this would be a perfect topic for one of our Cosmos Down Under podcasts and Blaize agreed to take part. So much content talks about what to do with a product, and even though everyone knows there are things you shouldn’t do, very little content talks about these antipatterns.

2023-05-17