Chapter 3: Understanding the Data Lake Storage Layer
One of the components in our modern data warehouse Architecture that spans over all the processing steps, and is available to all the participating services, is our Data Lake Storage Layer.
It will serve as our landing zone, the transient storage while we're transforming and cleaning our data, and a source for queries for the analytical components. Users will establish their sandboxes, processes will store their logs here, and Data Scientists will use it as their main playground, together with their tools.
In this chapter, you will learn how to set up Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage, and also find suggestions about how to organize it so that you can flexibly react to any challenge. You will learn how to access data in Data Lake Storage, and you will look at some approaches for how to monitor your Storage Account. We will discuss options for backup and disaster recovery (DR) and examine the security and networking options...
