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Stream Analytics with Microsoft Azure

By : Murphy, Singh
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Stream Analytics with Microsoft Azure

By: Murphy, 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 (12 chapters)

Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio


The Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio help prepare, build, and deploy real-time events on Azure. Optionally, the tools enable you to monitor the streaming job using local sample data as job input testing as well as real-time monitoring, job metrics, diagram view, and so on. This tool provides a complete development setup for the implementation and deployment of real-world Azure Stream Analytics jobs using Visual Studio.

Prerequisites for the installation of Stream Analytics tools

This following development environment setup is needed in order to start working with Azure Stream Analytics jobs using Visual Studio:

  • Visual Studio supported versions: Visual Studio 2017/2015 (Enterprise, Professional, or Ultimate, and Community Edition), Visual Studio 2013 updated with Edition 4 (all Editions except Express), or VS 2012 Enterprise
  • Azure SDK for .NET version 2.7.1 or later is compulsory, which can be downloaded from https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads...