In this episode, Frank and Andy talk with Rimma Nehma about CosmosDB, Planet-Scale applications, and how she got started in Data.

Links

Posts by Rimma Nehme
CosmosDB.com
@rimmanehme
@AzureCosmosDB
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Notable Quotes

Submitting to the PASS Summit 2017 ([1:10])
Blues Brothers movie reference ([3:50])
Data needs to be Everywhere ([11:00])
Planet scale ([16:00])
Spiderman reference – from Rimma! ([17:30])
Is this science fiction? ([24:24])
Battle-tested. ([25:30])
Open-source software analytics ([27:30])
The CosmosDB simulator ([32:44])
A little startup inside Microsoft ([35:30])
Rimma found query optimization really, really boring. ([37:45])
On family… ([40:45])
CosmosDB is truly out of this world. ([48:00])
On reading… ([42:00])
Selling door-to-door ([44:45])

About the author, Data Driven Team

The Data Driven team is the dynamic duo of Frank La Vigne and Andy Leonard.

Frank La Vigne is a software engineer and UX geek who saw the light about Data Science at an internal Microsoft Data Science Summit in 2016. Now, he wants to share his passion for the Data Arts with the world.

Andy Leonard is a self-described Data Philosopher who literally lives in Farmville. No, not the game, the actual town. He slings code and manages data.