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_6

6. Azure Data Factory

Benjamin Kettner¹   and Frank Geisler²

(1)

Berlin, Germany

(2)

Lüdinghausen, Germany

 

No book about data processing in Azure would be complete without at least one chapter about the Azure Data Factory. Azure Data Factory (or ADF for short) is the Azure tool for moving data in Azure.

Much as you have seen with Azure functions, you can operate Azure Data Factory in a serverless manner or by supplying your own resources for running ADF. These resources are called integration runtimes in ADF; there are three types of integration ...