You're reading from Azure for Architects Create secure, scalable, high-availability applications on the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839215865

Length 698 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

ActionScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Jack Lee

Ritesh Modi

Rithin Skaria

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

About Azure for Architects, Third Edition

1. Getting started with Azure

2. Azure solution availability, scalability, and monitoring FREE CHAPTER

3. Design pattern – Networks, storage, messaging, and events

4. Automating architecture on Azure

5. Designing policies, locks, and tags for Azure deployments

6. Cost management for Azure solutions

7. Azure OLTP solutions

8. Architecting secure applications on Azure

9. Azure Big Data solutions

10. Serverless in Azure – Working with Azure Functions

11. Azure solutions using Azure Logic Apps, Event Grid, and Functions

12. Azure Big Data eventing solutions

13. Integrating Azure DevOps

14. Architecting Azure Kubernetes solutions

15. Cross-subscription deployments using ARM templates

16. ARM template modular design and implementation

17. Designing IoT solutions

18. Azure Synapse Analytics for architects

19. Architecting intelligent solutions

Index

Big data tools

There are many tools and services in the big data space, and we are going to cover some of them in this chapter.

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory is the flagship ETL service in Azure. It defines incoming data (in terms of its format and schema), transforms data according to business rules and filters, augments existing data, and finally transfers data to a destination store that is readily consumable by other downstream services. It is able to run pipelines (containing ETL logic) on Azure, as well as custom infrastructure, and can also run SQL Server Integration Services packages.

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Data Lake Storage is enterprise-level big data storage that is resilient, highly available, and secure out of the box. It is compatible with Hadoop and can scale to petabytes of data storage. It is built on top of Azure storage accounts and hence gets all of the benefits of storage account directly. The current version is called Gen2, after the...