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Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

By : Patrik Borosch
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Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

By: Patrik Borosch

Overview of this book

Azure Data Lake, the modern data warehouse architecture, and related data services on Azure enable organizations to build their own customized analytical platform to fit any analytical requirements in terms of volume, speed, and quality. This book is your guide to learning all the features and capabilities of Azure data services for storing, processing, and analyzing data (structured, unstructured, and semi-structured) of any size. You will explore key techniques for ingesting and storing data and perform batch, streaming, and interactive analytics. The book also shows you how to overcome various challenges and complexities relating to productivity and scaling. Next, you will be able to develop and run massive data workloads to perform different actions. Using a cloud-based big data-modern data warehouse-analytics setup, you will also be able to build secure, scalable data estates for enterprises. Finally, you will not only learn how to develop a data warehouse but also understand how to create enterprise-grade security and auditing big data programs. By the end of this Azure book, you will have learned how to develop a powerful and efficient analytical platform to meet enterprise needs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Data Warehousing and Considerations Regarding Cloud Computing
4
Section 2: The Storage Layer
7
Section 3: Cloud-Scale Data Integration and Data Transformation
14
Section 4: Data Presentation, Dashboarding, and Distribution

Summary

In this chapter, we talked about requirements engineering and the importance of asking the right questions. The answers, once engineered in a structured approach, will be vital to deciding on the building blocks and tools that will be used to create our modern data warehouse.

We built a generic reference architecture for a modern data warehouse and examined the building blocks that form this approach. We also talked about their major functionalities.

We then learned about industry models for acceleration purposes and how they can help you kickstart your project.

Finally, we explored three suggestions for sizes and mapped different Azure data services to them. Additionally, you learned about the assisting services that will complete your architecture. And don't get me wrong, there are even more to discover.

What I want to express here is that there are many ways to tackle challenges in a modern cloud-based environment and that, as we mentioned previously, there...