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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I was today years old when I learned about this. Why is nobody talking about this? 💊 This is great what he is doing, unlike most billionaires... 👍🏼 @mcuban.bsky.social

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 06/05/2025

If you're going to Microsoft BUILD come learn how to build multi-agent apps using Semantic Kernel in C# or LangGraph in Python at our hands-on-lab. build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio... There's another earlier delivery as well.

Learn to build multi-agent apps at our hands-on-lab at MS BUILD.

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Azure Cosmos DB @azurecosmosdb.com · 25/04/2025

Ep. 104 of #AzureCosmosDB TV is here! 🎥 High-Scale Data Processing over 1000s of Devices with Expanso See how Expanso + Azure Cosmos DB handle 50M records in under a minute with 1,000 edge nodes 🌍 📺 youtu.be/F2VMVjSxIHY #EdgeComputing #DistributedSystems #NoSQL

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High-Scale Data Processing over 1000s of Devices with Azure Cosmos DB and Expanso - Ep. 104

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 15/04/2025

Come check out the latest for @azurecosmosdb.com and see the exiting things customers are building at Cosmos DB Conf. Streaming live NOW!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXSu...

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Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 07/04/2025

I just updated our Samples Gallery with our latest great sample apps. 1. Multi-agent sample using OpenAI Swarm and Cosmos DB. 2. Full-day workshop building multi-agent apps using LangGraph in Python or Semantic Kernel Agents in C#. azurecosmosdb.github.io/gallery/

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Azure Cosmos DB @azurecosmosdb.com · 24/02/2025

New Video Series Alert! 🎬 Learn how to optimize performance, reduce costs, and scale efficiently with Azure Cosmos DB Design Patterns! 🚀 Watch now: aka.ms/AzureCosmosD... #AzureCosmosDB

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 29/01/2025

Enjoying Tet with a Vietnamese salted cream iced coffee. Great way to start the new year.

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Azure Cosmos DB @azurecosmosdb.com · 29/01/2025

📊 Ever wondered what embeddings are and how they power AI applications? 🤔 @markjbrown.com breaks it down in this short video, covering everything from LLMs to recommendation engines! 🚀 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/wF8xsL4w0_I #AzureCosmosDB #AI

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Azure Cosmos DB Shorts: What are embeddings?

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Adam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Distributed databases talk with @markjbrown.com We covered: • Scaling OUT (adding nodes) vs. UP (bigger servers) • Why partitioning is so important • How session-level consistency lets you read your writes without the cost of full strong consistency www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv0q...

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How do distributed databases actually work?

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James Cowling @jamescowling.dev · 24/01/2025

Got to sit down with Professor @andypavlo.bsky.social on the latest @convex.dev Databased podcast for his 2024 databases year in review! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B-M...

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What You Missed in 2024 in the World of Databases, with Andy Pavlo

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 14/01/2025

Customers have been asking us to make it easier to automatically generate embeddings on their data in @azurecosmosdb.com So we created this: devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/emb... This sample shows how to use a Cosmos DB Trigger & Output binding in Functions to do it automatically.

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Cosmos DB Embeddings Generator Sample - Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Ever since our first preview announcement for vector indexing and support for DiskANN and then again when we announced the GA for these features, customers have been asking us to make it easier to gen...

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 19/12/2024

Embeddings are at the heart of how an LLM works. But understanding how they work is hard. To help, I created a simple Python Notebook that takes an array of words and plots them in a 3D graph to show how the compare in a multi-dimensional space. Feel free to check out. github.com/AzureCosmosD...

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Caroline Fiennes @carolinefiennes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd. I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo. THREAD. 1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 04/12/2024

I am once again in CDG and ONCE AGAIN something completely stupid is keeping me from making my connection. This time they won't let us leave the jet way after getting off the plane. No explanation given.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 03/12/2024

Yes everyone should! 🙂

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 03/12/2024

Join me today for my session, Build High Perf AI Apps using OpenAI & Cosmos DB Learn how vectors work, query 100B vectors in < 50ms, semantic caching and how to build massively scalable RAG Pattern applications. Today at 17:00 in K2. #ESPC24 www.sharepointeurope.com/events/build...

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Build High Performance AI Apps using Azure OpenAI & Azure Cosmos DB - ESPC Conference, 2024

Azure Cosmos DB is a distributed NoSQL database providing unmatched availability, performance and scalability and now offers vector database capabilities developed by Microsoft Research for building A...

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 02/12/2024

Oh hell. I just realized I flew to Europe and neglected to bring both my power pack for all my equipment and my power adapter.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 02/12/2024

Made it through CDG. I really dislike this airport but it does smell nice in places.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 02/12/2024

CDG is the worst airport in the world. Maybe Newark is worse... No, CDG. I'm sure of it.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 01/12/2024

Flying to Stockholm for #ESPC24 to talk about how to build massively scalable Gen-AI applications using @AzureCosmosDB.com. If you're going, comme check out my talk on Tuesday.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 01/12/2024

Major update to our @azurecosmosdb.com Copilot C# sample app. Added... Semantic Kernel Cosmos vector search Better token management New full-text and hybrid search features. Aspire integration. Other refinements as well. github.com/AzureCosmosD...

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GitHub - AzureCosmosDB/cosmosdb-nosql-copilot: Build a copilot application with Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Cosmos DB & Azure App Service.

Build a copilot application with Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Cosmos DB & Azure App Service. - AzureCosmosDB/cosmosdb-nosql-copilot

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 27/11/2024

This feels like Ballmer's take on Apple iStore 20 years ago.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 27/11/2024

Oh this is awesome. I was running out of Post-it Notes jotting these down 🙂

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 24/11/2024

I left #msignite early last week due to a bad wind storm here in Seattle. No power for four days. Lots of down trees. Here's just a few. Many got much worse and still people in my neighborhood without power nearly 6 days later. So inviting some over for dinner and to do laundry.

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God @thegodshow.com · 21/11/2024

Bluesky banned Andrew Tate in less than 24 hours. SMITE!

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 22/10/2024

Working on a databases starter pack: go.bsky.app/7mG8msu

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 06/11/2024

If you need some non-election material to distract you, Leslie Lamport just dropped a new book on TLA+ lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science-...

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A Science of Concurrent Programs

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 20/11/2024

Come see our session today with Toyota on how they built their durable multi-agent AI in Azure. It's pretty cool what they've built. I'm also going to show what a Semantic Cache can do for your customer facing Gen-AI apps 9:45 am - Room W187 #MSIgnite ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...

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Lessons from Toyota for building durable multi-agent copilots

Discover the power of GenAI in Toyota’s powertrain development. Learn how Toyota improves information collection, enhances decision-making, and boosts productivity for powertrain engineers with a mult...

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 19/11/2024

Cool vantage point to see the show floor at #MSIgnite

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 19/11/2024

THANK YOU @deck.blue. Feels like going home to have this experience again!!!

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Andrey Satarin @asatarin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello, Bluesky users! I curate and maintain list of resources on testing distributed systems. You might have seen it before. It's a good one, if I may say so myself. asatarin.github.io/testing-dist...

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Testing Distributed Systems

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Maarten Balliauw @maartenballiauw.be · 19/11/2024

Might as well join in on creating starter packs. Developer conferences! go.bsky.app/TZoPif2 #dotnet #java #azure

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 18/11/2024

Rehearsal for my session with Toyota in their durable multi-agent AI system they built using Azure Cosmos DB Be sure to check out BRK117 on Wednesday at #MSIgnite

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 18/11/2024

Things all getting set up for tomorrow. #MSIgnite

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 18/11/2024

We got swag! 😎 At #MSIgnite and want “extra exclusive swag? Find a PeerSpot rep near our Azure Cosmos DB booth, give a review of Cosmos, and we’ll gift you earbuds!

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 18/11/2024

Great video to get you running fast using Cosmos. Don't assume that 20 years of using SQL means you don't need an intro. Scale out NoSQL databases are different. SOME things that are ok for RDBMS are anti patterns here.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 18/11/2024

5am workout to get my energy and start #MSIgnite right.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 18/11/2024

Played tourist today here in Chicago. Tomorrow, rehearsals and, you know, work. #MSIgnite

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 18/11/2024

Played tourist today here in Chicago. Tomorrow, rehearsals and, you know, work. #MSIgnite

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 17/11/2024

I've been using Bogus for years to create synthetic datasets. Turns out gpt-4o is ever better at it once you get the prompts dialed in. Created a product catalog generator in Python using it. Generates vectors too. Going to keep adding more. github.com/AzureCosmosD...

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GitHub - AzureCosmosDB/llm-data-generator: This repository demonstrates how to generate a synthetic data set using Azure OpenAI GPT-4o and generate vectors on it using text-3-large

This repository demonstrates how to generate a synthetic data set using Azure OpenAI GPT-4o and generate vectors on it using text-3-large - AzureCosmosDB/llm-data-generator

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 15/11/2024

Join me at #MSIGNITE next week to discover how Toyota Motor Corporation is revolutionizing car design with a multi-agent AI system powered by #AzureCosmosDB and #AzureOpenAIService. ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...

Toyota and Durable Multi-Agent AI systems at Microsoft IGNITE, session code BRK117

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