Moving an existing CosmosDB database/collection to CosmosDB Serverless when using MongoDB

Introduction

If we go several years back, I already leveraged the instant scaling of CosmosDB… Recently a new plan has been introduced to cover this behavior, being the Consumption Based / Serverless option! For a new project I immediately started using this one, and I am very happy about it. Where I came to a point where I said to myself, let us migrate the other databases (where fit) to this option too. For today’s post, I will go into the differences I noticed… and hopefully save you some time looking up things. 😉 Though be aware that I have been leveraging the MongoDB API/endpoint.

See what your users are experiencing with Clarity!

Introduction

A while back Mike was telling me he discovered “Clarity” existed and that I should REALLY take a look at it. I remember in initially was a it sceptic also thinking about where the potential overlap was with “Application Insights“.

Tried out #Clarity today upon suggestion by @TechMike2kX. Pure gold in terms of discovering the real user experience on your webapp! If you want to demo it => https://t.co/JRrM3uqZSB pic.twitter.com/TGpvEPzr9H

— Karim Vaes (@kvaes) April 1, 2021

As I have been working on a new project, I decided to take it for a test spin, and I must say I am impressed! Clarity is a simple and free service that allows you to see what your users are seeing. Plain “simple”… nothing more, nothing less. It will provide you insights on the usage, heatmaps of your web app and session recordings of users going through your web app. Which will help like a lot when you want to refine your user experience!

Quick skim through the service

Once signed up you are prompted to create a new project ;