Cosmos DB Best Practices — A Lesson from Spacely Sprockets | Sid Anand | Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026
Sid Anand shares Azure Cosmos DB best practices using a Jetsons-themed scenario: George Jetson is building an always-on, globally low-latency e-commerce site for Spacely Sprockets with strict cost and stack constraints.
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Scenario and goals
- Build an e-commerce site with:
- Always-on availability
- Low-latency requests “to every corner of the galaxy”
- Cost efficiency / maximum profit constraints
- A constrained, tightly controlled tech stack
What the talk focuses on
- Concrete patterns and best practices for building:
- Globally distributed applications
- High-availability architectures
- Cost-efficient designs
- Low-latency request paths
- All in the context of Azure Cosmos DB as the primary data platform.
Event context and related resources
- Session from Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 (virtual developer event).
- Playlist of sessions: https://aka.ms/CosmosConf26Playlist
- Cosmos Conf Challenge (DP-420 voucher for first 500 completions): https://aka.ms/CosmosDBConfChallenge
- Post-event survey: https://aka.ms/CosmosConf2026Survey
- Conference site: https://aka.ms/azurecosmosdbconf