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Azure Databricks Cookbook

By : Phani Raj, Vinod Jaiswal
Book Image

Azure Databricks Cookbook

By: Phani Raj, Vinod Jaiswal

Overview of this book

Azure Databricks is a unified collaborative platform for performing scalable analytics in an interactive environment. The Azure Databricks Cookbook provides recipes to get hands-on with the analytics process, including ingesting data from various batch and streaming sources and building a modern data warehouse. The book starts by teaching you how to create an Azure Databricks instance within the Azure portal, Azure CLI, and ARM templates. You’ll work through clusters in Databricks and explore recipes for ingesting data from sources, including files, databases, and streaming sources such as Apache Kafka and EventHub. The book will help you explore all the features supported by Azure Databricks for building powerful end-to-end data pipelines. You'll also find out how to build a modern data warehouse by using Delta tables and Azure Synapse Analytics. Later, you’ll learn how to write ad hoc queries and extract meaningful insights from the data lake by creating visualizations and dashboards with Databricks SQL. Finally, you'll deploy and productionize a data pipeline as well as deploy notebooks and Azure Databricks service using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). By the end of this Azure book, you'll be able to use Azure Databricks to streamline different processes involved in building data-driven apps.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Creating an App Configuration resource

Azure App Configuration is a service that's used to manage application configuration settings such as flags or any other static keys that are required across applications. It provides a centralized location to store configurations that can be referred to later. When you are working in a cloud environment, many components are distributed across multiple machines, and having the application configurations for each component can cause issues such as inconsistencies in the configuration values, which makes it hard to troubleshoot errors. In such scenarios, you can use Azure App Configuration to store your application settings in a centralized location that can be changed dynamically without requiring any deployment.

In this recipe, you will learn how to create an App Configuration resource in the Azure portal using a UI.

Getting ready

Before starting, you need to ensure you have contributor access to the subscription or are the owner...