Aggressively tuning Cosmos DB (the long way round)

How many ways are there to tune Cosmos DB? In our (eventually pretty desperate) attempts to coax it into scaling nicely, we tried 9 approaches. As they became more arcane, we saw diminishing returns. Some were flat-out counter-productive! The eventual solution in our case was a single-line fix (how embarrassing!), but the journey was really interesting. It’s this journey that I want to share today.

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Developing on Salesforce – 3 initial observations

Lately, I’ve been trying to improve my Salesforce skills. It’s been getting pretty interesting, to the point where I’d like to dedicate a post to it. (Hardcore .NET/C# readers may want to skip this week!) There are bits of the Salesforce developer ecosystem which I love and a few bits that are a little janky. I think the most interesting thing for developers is “Salesforce DX”, which I’ll try to explain briefly.

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