Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Discover how Sam’s Club, powered by Walmart Global Tech, uses Azure Cosmos DB to deliver resilient, high-performance retail applications at scale. In this session from Microsoft Ignite 2025, Gautam Chandra (Senior Director of Software Engineering) explains the strategies behind building mission-critical systems for millions of customers.
Key highlights from this clip:

Why Sam’s Club relies on multi-region Cosmos DB deployments for global resilience.
How multi-availability zones and per-partition automatic failover (PPAF) ensure RTO/RPO under 2 minutes.
Fine-tuning SDK configurations for preferred region routing and read hedging to minimize latency.
Balancing availability targets (4 nines vs. 5 nines) based on application criticality.
Real-world examples of optimizing checkout, membership validation, and fraud prevention.

Why it matters:
Retail apps demand speed, reliability, and scale. Learn how Sam’s Club achieves all three with Azure Cosmos DB and smart architectural choices.
👉 Watch now to see how mission-critical retail workloads thrive on Azure.

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