Chapter 8: Implementing a Data Lakehouse on Microsoft Azure

We have come a long way on our journey in exploring modern data analytics architecture through the concept of the data lakehouse. All seven layers of the data lakehouse are covered in detail in the preceding chapters. Although you can employ the same architecture in any cloud service or even on-premises, I will implement a data lakehouse on the Microsoft Azure platform.

This chapter will start by refreshing the concepts covered in Chapter 1, Introducing the Evolution of Data Analytics Patterns, and Chapter 2, The Data Lakehouse Architecture Overview, and establishing the advantages of using cloud computing. The following three sections of the chapter will focus on the cloud services used to bring to fruition the data lakehouse architecture. Finally, the chapter will explain the services in Microsoft Azure that you can use to realize the data lakehouse architecture. We will discuss the key features of each of these services...