For every potential AI advancement, there are hidden challenges. That means a weak data foundation that can waste resources, impede decision-making, and make innovation difficult. Meet Azure Cosmos DB, an AI-era database that delivers the speed, scalability, and reliability you need to power the next generation of intelligent applications. Azure Cosmos DB is a pivotal building block for creating intelligent solutions like OpenAI’s ChatGPT that get to market faster and deliver great user experiences.
In this blog, we’ll reveal the wealth of learning resources we offer to build your skills with Azure Cosmos DB, as well as how you could win a share of the $10,000 prize from the Microsoft Developers AI Learning Hackathon.
Building AI apps
Microsoft Developer AI Learning Hackathon
Has your interest been sparked? Then let’s go in.
Azure Cosmos DB is a critical component for building AI apps.
Azure Cosmos DB plays a critical role in powering AI-powered intelligent applications and provides several essential benefits:
- Build scalable applications. Bring your apps to life with high-performance distributed computing on large volumes of NoSQL and vector data. Azure offers several options to fit your needs. Start small and pay only for what you use for serverless functions, or explore the free tier of Azure Cosmos DB, ideal for developing, testing, and running small production workloads.
- AI support. Azure Cosmos DB simplifies AI apps by efficiently storing and querying vectors and data using a serverless vector database. Power your co-pilot app with NoSQL data and ask questions using natural language to generate queries. You can also easily import data into Microsoft Azure OpenAI models.
- Real-time app. Azure Cosmos DB powers personalized, intelligent applications and AI models with real-time data collected and processed at any scale with less than 10ms latency. Works with any language and framework of your choice, including Python, Node.js, and Java.
- Safe and highly available. Maintain enterprise-grade, multi-layered security across your data and apps, ensure 99.999% availability with industry-leading service level agreements for NoSQL data, and easily recover and restore critical data with flexible options for continuous backup and point-in-time. – Timely restoration.
Gain real-world experience with a chance to win big prizes
The Microsoft Developers AI Learning Hackathon is an exciting opportunity for developers to explore the world of AI and build innovative applications using Azure Cosmos DB. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or a curious newcomer, this hackathon welcomes participants of all backgrounds and skill levels.
When you join, you will gain valuable experience using cutting-edge Microsoft Azure AI tools and learn from Microsoft experts through workshops and mentoring sessions. There’s also the optional challenge of leveraging Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB to integrate AI into your or your team’s applications. The top competitors will share $10,000 in prize money and recognition from the developer community.
The Microsoft Developers AI Learning Hackathon is already in full swing, but AI app submissions will be accepted until June 17, 2024 at 5:00 PM PDT, and winners will be announced on July 1, 2024!
Start your Azure Cosmos DB learning journey
Before you get creative with Azure Cosmos DB to win prizes, there are a few prerequisites you need to complete to participate in the hackathon. Let’s take a look at the roadmap to go from AI beginner to AI authority.
Azure Cosmos DB Developer Cloud Skills Challenge
Ahead of the event, we created a pair for free. Azure Cloud Technical Challenges walks you through the basics of the Azure OpenAI service and Azure Cosmos DB, and ultimately how to build an AI co-pilot using Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.
The Azure Cloud Skills Challenge is part of an interactive learning sprint and also a friendly competition between you and your peers from around the world. These immersive, gamified experiences are a mix of hands-on exercises, tutorials, and assessments to ensure a well-rounded learning experience.
Part 2 walks you through building an AI co-pilot using Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, a fully managed MongoDB-compatible database that integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. This part of the challenge can be completed in under 4 hours.
If you complete both challenges available between now and June 18, 2024, you will receive a badge that you must submit to participate in the hackathon.
GitHub Azure OpenAI Developer Guide
You know all about GitHub. It’s part version control system, part social network, and part collaboration platform for building software together. This central hub for development projects not only creates a collaborative environment where developers can learn from each other, but is also the next step toward participating in the Microsoft Developers AI Learning Hackathon.
After completing both parts of the Azure Cosmos DB Developer Cloud Skills Challenge, you should have a solid foundation in understanding the tools and technologies to start building AI-enabled apps. However, these two GitHub Azure OpenAI developer guides (one for Python and one for Node.js) are comprehensive resources that walk you step-by-step through the process of building intelligent apps.
Depending on your language preference, you’ll need to complete one or more of our free developer guides to participate in the hackathon. Each guide takes approximately 4 weeks to complete.
Join Microsoft Reactor and connect with developers in real time.
Want to chat with an Azure expert to ask questions and seek guidance? join us A free, live Microsoft Reactor event detailing everything covered in the Azure Cosmos DB Developer Cloud Skills Challenge. This two-part webinar provides practical insights and valuable experience to help you efficiently build intelligent AI-enabled apps on Azure.
The “Learn how to build your own AI apps using Azure Cosmos DB” live stream begins May 1, 2024 at 9:00 AM PDT, with Part 2 continuing concurrently on May 15, 2024. You do not have to participate in a hackathon to participate. But highly recommended!
Take advantage of the all-new Azure Cosmos DB training module.
But there’s more! We’ve also launched a new self-learning path to complement both the Azure Cosmos DB Developer Cloud Skills Challenge and the GitHub Azure AI Developer Guide. In four lessons totaling less than four hours, you will learn how to implement and migrate Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB on vCore, manage clusters, and build your own AI co-pilot using Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB and Azure OpenAI. .
Register now and start hacking!
Are you ready to push the limits of possibility? Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to level up your AI skills, network with fellow developers, and potentially win big! Go to the Microsoft Developers AI Learning Hackathon page to register and get started today.
About Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed, serverless, distributed database for modern app development with SLA-supported speed and availability, automatic and instantaneous scalability, and support for open source PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, and Apache Cassandra. Try Azure Cosmos DB for free here. To get the latest information about Azure Cosmos DB updates: XYouTube and LinkedIn.
