Agreed! Azure’s best product isn’t CosmosDB, AKS, or their AI cognitive services - it’s Kusto! Sadly no one knows about it.

If you’re interested, you can try it here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/...

There is also the Kusto Detective Agency site where you learn by pretending to be a detective investigating leads using the the data. You also get a little certificate at the end. https://detective.kusto.io/

Yes, me too!! I think the most natural way to think about more complex data manipulations is as a series of functions.

I think there's a lot love for SQL, and people can tend to get a little defensive around new query languages. But I think having a better suited query languages to is often a much nicer solution than ORMs.