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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

Points to remember

The following are some important points:

  • If DevOps is a philosophy, SRE is a prescriptive way of achieving that philosophy: class SRE implements DevOps.
  • SRE balances the velocity of development features with the risk to reliability.
  • SLA represents an external agreement and will result in consequences when violated.
  • SLOs are a way to measure customer happiness and their expectations.
  • SLIs are best expressed as a proportion of all successful events to valid events.
  • Error budget is the inverse of availability and depicts how unreliable a service is allowed to be.
  • Toil is manual work tied to a production system but is not the same as overhead.
  • The need for unifying vision, communication, and collaboration with an emphasis on blameless postmortems and the need to encourage psychological safety and reduce resistance to change are key SRE cultural practices.
  • Google emphasizes the use of microservices and cloud-native development for...