Technical requirements
This chapter requires that you have the following:
- Visual Studio 2019 free Community edition or better, with all the database tools components installed.
- A free Azure account. The Creating an Azure account subsection in Chapter 1, Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture, explains how to create one.
- For a better development experience, we advise that you also install the local emulator of Cosmos DB, which can be found at https://aka.ms/cosmosdb-emulator.