The Fascination with Kusto and Introduction to Cosmos DB

The chapter delves into a personal story involving the programming language Kusto and compares it to the speaker's passion for diving. It transitions to an introduction of Thomas and Tony from the Cosmos DB team, explaining the unique features of Cosmos DB such as horizontal scalability, non-relational data storage, and multiple API sets. The discussion further explores recent Microsoft Build announcements related to encryption at rest with customer managed keys in Cosmos DB, emphasizing security measures and the importance of key management in data storage.