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Azure Data Engineering Cookbook

By : Ahmad Osama
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Azure Data Engineering Cookbook

By: Ahmad Osama

Overview of this book

Data engineering is one of the faster growing job areas as Data Engineers are the ones who ensure that the data is extracted, provisioned and the data is of the highest quality for data analysis. This book uses various Azure services to implement and maintain infrastructure to extract data from multiple sources, and then transform and load it for data analysis. It takes you through different techniques for performing big data engineering using Microsoft Azure Data services. It begins by showing you how Azure Blob storage can be used for storing large amounts of unstructured data and how to use it for orchestrating a data workflow. You'll then work with different Cosmos DB APIs and Azure SQL Database. Moving on, you'll discover how to provision an Azure Synapse database and find out how to ingest and analyze data in Azure Synapse. As you advance, you'll cover the design and implementation of batch processing solutions using Azure Data Factory, and understand how to manage, maintain, and secure Azure Data Factory pipelines. You’ll also design and implement batch processing solutions using Azure Databricks and then manage and secure Azure Databricks clusters and jobs. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn how to process streaming data using Azure Stream Analytics and Data Explorer. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the knowledge you need to be able to orchestrate batch and real-time ETL workflows in Microsoft Azure.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Implementing HDInsight Hive and Pig activities

Azure HDInsight is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that lets you create big data clusters to use Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka to process big data. We can also scale up or down the clusters as and when required.

Apache Hive, built on top of Apache Hadoop, facilitates querying big data on Hadoop clusters using SQL syntax. Using Hive, we can read files stored in the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as an external table. We can then apply transformations to the table and write the data back to HDFS as files.

Apache Pig, built on top of Apache Hadoop, is a language to perform Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) operations on big data. Using Pig, we can read, transform, and write the data stored in HDFS.

In this recipe, we'll use Azure Data Factory, HDInsight Hive, and Pig activities to read data from Azure Blob storage, aggregate the data, and write it back to Azure Blob storage.

Getting ready

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