Setting up a cloud environment
An easy and fast way to start writing data engineering code in Scala is to use cloud-based services. This route bypasses the need to do extensive setup on local machines and eliminates the need to manage dependencies between software libraries.
In this book, we will be using Microsoft Azure as our cloud provider. There are generally costs associated with running services in the cloud. Please take that into consideration while deciding on setting up a cloud development environment. All code and examples used in this book can be done on the cloud or in your local development environment.
