Geovanny Hernandez

When increasing the size of your relational Database Server is not enough to face the increase in your workload, and you really need horizontal scalability, Azure Cosmos for PostgreSQL can come to the rescue. This session focuses on giving the audience a clear picture of the scenarios where Azure Cosmos for PostgreSQL changes the game's rules. Starting with an analysis of Distributed Systems and their application in the Database world, and how to incorporate these concepts into a relational database without losing the primary benefits associated with it. Finally, during the session would be sharing a practical use case where Terabytes of data had been managed with exceptional performance and good modeling practices.

This session is focused on the process of building a solid and consistent strategy that allows us to migrate our existing Database toward proper Azure Cloud offers. We are going to take as a base a Microsoft SQL Server on-premise and walk through the main stages and milestones to be achieved for having a successful migration. It starts from setting up a baseline and determining the most convenient sort of option as a platform as a service (pass) or infrastructure as service (iass). Finally, we are going to do a real-time migration of a sample Database and explain the interesting aspects to taking account as part of the post-migration process.