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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, you have examined Synapse pipelines/Azure Data Factory. You have learned how to create a data movement pipeline using a wizard, as well as from scratch in the authoring environment. You have seen the orchestration capabilities with the many different activities provided.

You have further implemented your first mapping flow to create transformations your data is going through before it lands in your Data Lake Storage. You have examined wrangling flows and learned the difference between the two data flow components.

We have also examined the IRs and their differences and talked about managed virtual networks and managed private endpoints.

Finally, we have integrated our Data Factory with Azure DevOps and have established source control over our artifacts.

In the next chapter, we are going to dive into another option to transform and process data using one of the main compute components in our modern data warehouse: the Spark engine.