IoT Solutions in Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite: Data Acquisition and Analysis in the Real World

© Scott Klein 2017

Scott Klein, IoT Solutions in Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2143-3_7

7. Azure Data Factory

Scott Klein¹ 

(1)Redmond, Washington, USA

So far in your example, you have data sitting in both Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Blob Storage, waiting for the next step in the journey. Chapters 5 and 6 walked through the process of using Azure Stream Analytics to pick the data up from Azure IoT Hub and route it to hot path or cold path destinations, depending on the analysis needs for data insights.

Revisiting the hot path/cold path scenario for a moment, your data has followed a cold path, meaning it is sitting in storage for prompt processing and analytics by other services. Chapter 13 will look at and discuss hot path scenarios, ...