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_3

3. Data-Driven Applications

Benjamin Kettner¹   and Frank Geisler²

(1)

Berlin, Germany

(2)

Lüdinghausen, Germany

 

Clive Humby, an American mathematician, stated that “data is the new oil.” This is an analogy that suits quite well. As with raw oil, you cannot really work with raw data. To get meaningful insights from raw data you first have to process it. Another accurate facet of this analogy is the importance of both oil and data. In our current society oil is important as the basis for fuel for transportation, as well as for all the things that ...