I have had a fun morning trouble shooting an issue and thought that the resolution (at least part of it) would be worth writing up.
One of our Senior Software Engineers (Dave Edwards) picked up a spike to investigate making one of our Cosmos Dbs region resilient. The result was a very detailed wiki and set of test repos which I’ve summarized on this blog.
A conversation some weeks ago caused us to speculate that we may have a use case for a data lake. Our Grocery website has a requirement for a list of frequently bought items. We have the data…. sort of. Grocery website orders are posting (in XML) on an Azure Service Bus topic, as are transaction logs from our POS in store. It wouldn’t take much effort to stream bonus card nominations in this way as well.