Pro Serverless Data Handling with Microsoft Azure: Architecting ETL and Data-Driven Applications in the Cloud

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B. Kettner, F. GeislerPro Serverless Data Handling with Microsoft Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8067-6_1

1. Azure Basics

Benjamin Kettner¹   and Frank Geisler²

(1)

Berlin, Germany

(2)

Lüdinghausen, Germany

 

As of today, cloud technology—and especially Azure, Microsoft’s implementation of a stack of cloud services—has become one of the main factors that drive the wheel of innovation, which just spins faster and faster. Cloud technology is so much more than someone else’s computers. A mature cloud platform like Azure provides automation that keeps you from the daunting tasks that every IT professional knows and dreads lets you focus on what really matters: ...