DP-060 Migrate NoSQL Workloads to Azure Cosmos DB

This course will teach the students what is Cosmos DB and how you can migrate MongoDB and Cassandra workloads to Cosmos DB.

Audience

The primary audience for this course is database developers who plan to migrate their MongoDB or Cassandra DB workloads to Azure using Cosmos DB.

Job role: Data Engineer

Prerequisites

Successful students start this role with a fundamental knowledge of cloud computing concepts and professional experience in configuring NoSQL applications.

Specifically:

The fundamental concepts of partitioning, replication, and resource governance for building and configuring scalable NoSQL applications that are agnostic of Cosmos DB API.
Experience with Azure, such as deploying and managing resources

Course goals

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Building Globally Distributed Applications with Cosmos DB
Migrate MongoDB Workloads to Cosmos DB
Migrate Cassandra DB Workloads to Cosmos DB

Course content

Module 1: Building Globally Distributed Applications with Cosmos DB
This module describes the benefits and architecture of Cosmos DB.

Lessons:
Cosmos DB overview
Cosmos DB APIs
Provisioning Throughput
Partitioning/Sharding Best Practices

Module 2: Migrate MongoDB Workloads to Cosmos DB
Migrate MongoDB Workloads to Cosmos DB

Lessons:
Understand Migration Benefits
Migration Planning
Data Migration
Application Migration
Post-migration considerations

Module 3: Migrate Cassandra DB Workloads to Cosmos DB
This module describes the benefits and process of migrating Cassandra DB workloads to Cosmos DB.