Examining the authoring environment
After you have provisioned your service, you can navigate to the resource and you will find the following view:
Figure 5.4 – Azure Data Factory Overview blade
Right below the Essentials overview section, you will find two buttons, Documentation and Author & Monitor. To access the web authoring experience of Azure Data Factory, you need to click on Author & Monitor. This will take you to the authoring environment, which looks like this:
Figure 5.5 – Azure Data Factory home screen
On the home screen, you will already find some options to help you make a start. You can examine a number of videos. There is a nice overview video that is worth watching, for example. Below the Videos section, there is a Tutorials section with an introduction and other information pertaining to Azure Data Factory, and in the footer of the page, you will find additional links regarding Azure Data Factory...