Azure Cosmos DB is a fully-managed, multi-tenant, distributed, shared-nothing, horizontally scalable database that provides planet-scale capabilities and multi-model APIs for Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Gremlin, Tables, and the Core (SQL) APIs. It currently powers many mission-critical services both within Microsoft (such as Microsoft Teams and Active Directory) and across large-scale Fortune 500 organizations (such as Walmart and Adobe).
This talk covers the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. We will first cover the design of the storage engine, with particular emphasis on ensuring high availability and scalability through partitioning and replication. Next, we will zoom in on the request routing gateway to see how it has evolved to solve the well-known multi-tenant cloud infrastructure challenges of containing noisy neighbors and limiting blast radius. Lastly, we will discuss performance as a feature and as a culture. We will cover what we measure and how we think about SLOs to achieve and maintain low latency.
Building planet-scale services necessitates solving complex scalability challenges and making numerous tradeoffs across various components in the product. We look forward to sharing our experiences and lessons learned in building Azure Cosmos DB.
Speaker
Mei-Chin Tsai
Partner Director of Software Eng Manager @Microsoft
Mei-Chin Tsai is a Engineering Director at Microsoft, responsible for Azure Cosmos DB developer experience. She leads the charge to evolve a frictionless developer experience for Azure Cosmos DB; from the Software Development Kit, request routing gateway, to OSS APIs and tooling (such as Notebook and Portal). She was previously the Development Manager for .NET Runtime and C# in Microsoft’s Developer Division. Mei-Chin graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science. She joined Microsoft in 1994 and was one of the original developers on .NET. She is passionate about scalability, performance, quality, and developer experience. She is committed in growing and mentoring people. At spare time, she loves to travel and is an avid tennis player.
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Speaker
Vinod Sridharan
Principal Software Engineering Architect @Microsoft
Vinod Sridharan is a Principal Software Engineering Architect at Microsoft responsible for the Azure Cosmos DB APIs. He works on the design and architecture of the core components that power them, the gateway and the supporting distributed service infrastructure. Across various components including storage, transport, load balancing, and routing, Vinod drives low latency, high availability, and performance throughout the Azure Cosmos DB service. In his spare time, Vinod loves to travel, sing, and go hiking.
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Date
Wednesday Nov 30 / 11:40AM PST ( 50 minutes )
