Azure Data Factory by Example: Practical Implementation for Data Engineers

ISBN-13: 9781484270288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 335 str.

Richard Swinbank

Opis

Intermediate user level

Spis treści

1. Creating an Azure Data Factory Instance 

2. Your First Pipeline

3. The Copy Data Activity

4. Expressions

5. Parameters

6. Controlling Flow

7. Data Flows

8. Integration Runtimes

9. Power Query in ADF

10. Publishing to ADF

11. Triggers

12. Monitoring

O autorze

​Richard Swinbank is a data engineer and Microsoft Data Platform MVP. He specializes in building and automating analytics platforms using Microsoft technologies from the SQL Server stack to the Azure cloud. He is a fervent advocate of DataOps, with a technical focus on bringing automation to both analytics development and operations. An active member of the data community and keen knowledge-sharer, Richard is a volunteer, organizer, speaker, blogger, open source contributor, and author. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Birmingham (UK).

Blurb

Data engineers who need to hit the ground running will use this book to build skills in Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF). The tutorial-first approach to ADF taken in this book gets you working from the first chapter, explaining key ideas naturally as you encounter them. From creating your first data factory to building complex, metadata-driven nested pipelines, the book guides you through essential concepts in Microsoft’s cloud-based ETL/ELT platform. It introduces components indispensable for the movement and transformation of data in the cloud. Then it demonstrates the tools necessary to orchestrate, monitor, and manage those components.

The hands-on introduction to ADF found in this book is equally well-suited to data engineers embracing their first ETL/ELT toolset as it is to seasoned veterans of Microsoft’s SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). The example-driven approach leads you through ADF pipeline construction from the ground up, introducing important ideas and making learning natural and engaging. SSIS users will find concepts with familiar parallels, while ADF-first readers will quickly master those concepts through the book’s steady building up of knowledge in successive chapters. Summaries of key concepts at the end of each chapter provide a ready reference that you can return to again and again.

You will:

• Create pipelines, activities, datasets, and linked services
• Build reusable components using variables, parameters, and expressions
• Move data into and around Azure services automatically
• Transform data natively using ADF data flows and Power Query data wrangling
• Master flow-of-control and triggers for tightly orchestrated pipeline execution
• Publish and monitor pipelines easily and with confidence