6 Analytics

This chapter covers

  • Separating development and production environments
  • Creating an analytics workflow
  • Supporting self-serve data movement

This chapter focuses on analytics, one of the major workloads a data platform needs to support. We briefly touched on the topic in chapter 3 when we took a query from our data scientist, Mary, and implemented DevOps for it, including tracking it in source control and deploying it using an Azure Pipeline. We’ll expand on that topic in this chapter. Figure 6.1 highlights our current focus.

Figure 6.1 Analytics is one of the major workloads our data platforms need to support. This includes all reporting, ...

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