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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Azure data factory

Data is generally stored in flat files, relational databases, NoSQL databases and other locations in multiple formats, such as JSON, XML, CSV, text files, and binary. Moreover, each data store defines its own model to store data. An employee ID in one data store is named EMPIDID in another data store and EID in the third data store within the same organization. There are multiple facets for the same data within different data stores. Azure data factory is a data integration service that helps in authoring orchestration and workflow scenarios for the ETL of data. Azure data factory works with data from any location-cloud, on-premise, and works at the cloud scale. It works with large volumes of data with varied formats.

The workflows in Azure data factory are known as data pipelines and Azure data factory helps in creating, deploying, monitoring, and scheduling...