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Stream Analytics with Microsoft Azure

By : Ryan Murphy, Manpreet Singh
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Stream Analytics with Microsoft Azure

By: Ryan Murphy, Manpreet Singh

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a very popular cloud computing service used by many organizations around the world. Its latest analytics offering, Stream Analytics, allows you to process and get actionable insights from different kinds of data in real-time. This book is your guide to understanding the basics of how Azure Stream Analytics works, and building your own analytics solution using its capabilities. You will start with understanding what Stream Analytics is, and why it is a popular choice for getting real-time insights from data. Then, you will be introduced to Azure Stream Analytics, and see how you can use the tools and functions in Azure to develop your own Streaming Analytics. Over the course of the book, you will be given comparative analytic guidance on using Azure Streaming with other Microsoft Data Platform resources such as Big Data Lambda Architecture integration for real time data analysis and differences of scenarios for architecture designing with Azure HDInsight Hadoop clusters with Storm or Stream Analytics. The book also shows you how you can manage, monitor, and scale your solution for optimal performance. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed in using Azure Stream Analytics to develop an efficient analytics solution that can work with any type of data.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 2. Introducing Azure Stream Analytics and Key Advantages

Microsoft provides a portfolio of data platform products that includes large volume/scale storage, processing, and orchestration of events. One key advantage offered by these services is that customers can deploy a combination of services and create new offerings that are very specific to their needs.

In this chapter, we will introduce Azure Stream Analytics, get into the configuration, look at the advantages of the Stream Analytics platform and focus on how it will enhance developer productivity and reduce or improve the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of building and maintaining a scaling streaming solution.

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