Tag Archives: Azure Data Factory

Designing and Implementing a Modern Data Architecture on Azure Cloud.

I just completed work on the digital transformation, design, development, and delivery of a cloud native data solution for one of the biggest professional sports organizations in north America. In this post, I want to share some thoughts on the … Continue reading

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Ingest Azure Event Hub Telemetry Data with Apache PySpark Structured Streaming on Databricks.

Overview. Ingesting, storing and processing millions of telemetry data from a plethora of remote IoT devices and Sensors has become common place. One of the primary Cloud services used to process streaming telemetry events at scale is Azure Event Hub. … Continue reading

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Incrementally Process Data Lake Files Using Azure Databricks Autoloader and Spark Structured Streaming API.

Use Case. In this post, I will share my experience evaluating an Azure Databricks feature that hugely simplified a batch-based Data ingestion and processing ETL pipeline. Implementing an ETL pipeline to incrementally process only new files as they land in … Continue reading

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Automate Azure Databricks Job Execution using Custom Python Functions.

Introduction Thanks to a recent Azure Databricks project, I’ve gained insight into some of the configuration components, issues and key elements of the platform. Let’s take a look at this project to give you some insight into successfully developing, testing, … Continue reading

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