Designing and Implementing Cloud-native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB: Study Companion for the DP-420 Exam

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3. Plan and Implement Sizing and Scaling

Steve Flowers¹  

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Perrysburg, OH, USA

 

Azure Cosmos DB leverages scale-out architecture to meet high-demand workloads at global scale. This means that new nodes are added to the pool of resources instead of increasing the size of a single node. This is important to understand as this scaling determines how to choose the right PK and what limits exist within a distributed, scale-out architecture.

In this chapter we will introduce concepts such ...