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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 · 24/01/2025

Let me know if you need quotes or anything. Will get you connected.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 24/01/2025

No different. This is our MongoDB vCore compatible API.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 24/01/2025

It's our MongoDB vCore API so a MDB compatible endpoint, but the underlying implementation is built on PostgreSQL. We're really excited by this as well!!!

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 23/01/2025

This is our MongoDB vCore engine. Not our Nosql one.

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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 · 10/01/2025

Tailor made for his audience.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 09/01/2025

Looks like your DM's are closed. Please feel free to DM me. Mine are open. Would be happy to connect with you. Thanks.

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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 09/01/2025

Hi Igor. Would it be possible to get some more understanding with your experience Cosmos DB? We've invested a lot over the years to make Cosmos a cost-efficient NoSQL database for any size workload, especially small and serverless use-cases. I'd love to get more details. Will DM you. Thanks!

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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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Mark Brown @markjbrown.com · 14/12/2024

I do this for my directs. I feel the same way.

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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 · 06/12/2024

I spent 10 minutes this morning making that go back to what it SHOULD be.

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

I made it by 2 minutes. They were yelling at me like it was my fault. The lack of awareness for what it's like transiting this airport is hilarious 😂

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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

I got another year before I can refresh it. Hopefully the hotel has an adapter left by another US traveler I can borrow 😁

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

Ok for my phone but my laptop?

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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

They didn't have those at the passport control I went through.

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

I've hated this airport for years. Today I got my bag pulled for second screening. It took them 30 minutes because there was a line of 10 bags and the slowest worker in France was doing the checking.

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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

Yeah as a former SoCal resident I have to agree. The new terminal train I hear makes getting around easier.

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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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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

How do I add myself to this? Already subscribed.

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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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