Partitioning Tips for Cosmos DB to Increase Performance and Save Money

Choosing the right partition key in Cosmos DB is complicated, but the right key will help you both increase the performance of your application and reduce the number of RUs you need to provision. There are several things to consider when picking a good key including how evenly it spreads both the physical layout of your data and the volume of requests across all partitions. In this session we will walk through a list of questions to ask yourself when picking a good key and we will explore a few real world customer scenarios.