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Connecting the Data: Data Integration Techniques for Building an Operational Data Store (ODS)

By : Angelo Bobak
Book Image

Connecting the Data: Data Integration Techniques for Building an Operational Data Store (ODS)

By: Angelo Bobak

Overview of this book

When organizations change or enhance their internal structures, business data integration is a complex problem that they must resolve. This book describes the common hurdles you might face while working with data integration and shows you various ways to overcome these challenges. The book begins by explaining the foundational concepts of ODS. Once familiar with schema integration, you?ll learn how to reverse engineer each data source for creating a set of data dictionary reports. These reports will provide you with the metadata necessary to apply the schema integration process. As you progress through the chapters, you will learn how to write scripts for populating the source databases and spreadsheets, as well as how to use reports to create Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) specifications. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge necessary to design and build a small ODS.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Site Reliability Engineering – A Prescriptive Way to Implement DevOps
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Section 2: Google Cloud Services to Implement DevOps via CI/CD
Appendix: Getting Ready for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification

Understanding DevOps, its evolution, and life cycle

This section focuses on the evolution of DevOps and lists phases or critical practices that form the DevOps life cycle.

Revisiting DevOps evolution

Let's take a step back and think about how DevOps has evolved. Agile software development methodology refers to a set of practices based on iterative development where requirements and solutions are built through collaboration between cross-functional teams and end users. DevOps can be perceived as a logical extension of Agile. Some might even consider DevOps as an offspring of Agile. This is because DevOps starts where Agile logically stops. Let's explore what this means in detail.

Agile was introduced as a holistic approach for end-to-end software delivery. Its core principles are defined in the Agile Manifesto (https://agilemanifesto.org/), with specific emphasis on interaction with processes and tools, improving collaboration, incremental and iterative development...