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Azure Cosmos DB partitioning design patterns – Part 1 

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In this article, you will learn how to use partition keys to efficiently distribute data, improve application performance, and enable faster look-up. The pre-requisites of this article are general knowledge of Azure Cosmos DB and a good understanding of change feed, request unit (RU) and Azure Functions.

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IoT device authentication options 

By Principal Program Manager, Office of the CTO

Picking the right security for the job is a challenging issue. Obviously, everyone wants their security for IoT solutions to be maximized. But issues such as hardware limitations, cost consciousness, lack of security expertise, and more all play into which security option is ultimately chosen for how your IoT devices connect to the cloud.

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Public preview: Named Entity Recognition in the Cognitive Services Text Analytics API 

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The Text Analytics Cognitive Service announces Public Preview of Named Entity Recognition. With a simple API call, apply robust machine learning models to your unstructured text and recognize more than 20 types of named entities such as people, places, organizations, quantities, dates, and more.

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Seven best practices for Continuous Monitoring with Azure Monitor 

By Senior Product Manager

Whether you are a developer, SRE, IT Ops specialist, PM or a DevOps practitioner, monitoring is something you definitely care about! Azure Monitor is Microsoft’s unified monitoring solution that provides full-stack observability across applications and infrastructure. Learn about some best practices for a successful monitoring strategy on hybrid/public cloud!