Chapter 3: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure

In the previous chapter, we discussed how cloud adoption offers greater flexibility and faster deployments for data engineering and analytical workloads. In this chapter, we'll discuss the major tools and services in Microsoft Azure that may help us implement such a solution.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to data engineering in Azure
  • Performing data engineering in Azure
  • How to open a free account with Azure

Introducing data engineering in Azure

In recent years, Microsoft Azure has added several powerful services to its arsenal that seamlessly collect, store, process, and publish data for both batch and streaming workloads. Gone are the days where choices for ...

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