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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
Book Image

Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Azure Synapse Analytics

Nowadays, with inexpensive storage and high elastic storage capacities, organizations are amassing more data than ever before. Architecting a solution to analyze such massive volumes of data to deliver meaningful insights about a business can be a challenge. One obstacle that many businesses face is the need to manage and maintain two types of analytics systems:

  • Data warehouses: These provide critical insights about the business.
  • Data lakes: These provide meaningful insights about customers, products, employees, and processes through various analytics methodologies.

Both of these analytics systems are critical to businesses, yet they operate independently of one another. Meanwhile, businesses need to gain insights from all their organizational data in order to stay competitive and to innovate processes to obtain better results.

For architects who need to build their own end-to-end data pipelines, the following steps must be taken:

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