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

By : Angelo Bobak
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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

Chapter 4: Building SRE Teams and Applying Cultural Practices

The last three chapters introduced the fundamentals of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), traced its origins, laid out how SRE is different than DevOps, introduced SRE jargon along with its key technical practices such as Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets, and focused on monitoring and alerting concepts to target reliability.

This chapter will focus on the fundamentals required to build SRE teams and apply cultural practices such as handling facets of incident management, being on call, achieving psychological safety, promoting communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing. These fundamentals and cultural practices can be used as a blueprint for teams or organizations that want to start their SRE journey.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Building SRE teams – Staffing, creating...