Satya Nadella says he's never seen a database scale as quickly as Cosmos DB. "In less than a year, Azure Cosmos DB, the first globally distributed [and] multi-model database, exceeded $100 million in ...

Thomas Dullien discusses how language design choices impact performance, how Google's monorepo culture and Amazon's two-pizza-team culture impact code efficiency, and why statistical variance is an ...

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Cloud computing isn’t like working on-premises. Instead of limiting code to one or maybe two datacenters, we’re designing systems that span not just continents but the entire world. And that’s where ...

For the first couple of years that Microsoft held its Build conference, the event was all about Windows. In the years since, the scope has widened and Build has become the company's broad annual ...

Here are four reasons why there's more to Microsoft's new database as a service than minimal management and greater flexibility At first glance, Microsoft’s new Cosmos DB Azure database seems like a ...

Analysts at Orca Security have found a critical vulnerability affecting Azure Cosmos DB that allowed unauthenticated read and write access to containers. Microsoft issued guidance on securing Azure ...

Cybersecurity has been a headache for Microsoft in the past few months. While the company is pushing Zero Trust security models for customers to adopt, some of its own software has been exposing data ...