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Reading Time: 4 minutes Amid the plethora of announcements coming out of the DATA + AI Summit a few weeks back, there was a distinct message from Databricks on the importance of data sharing. During the keynote Matei Zaharia referenced a Gartner report quoting...
Reading Time: 4 minutes Azure Resource locks are a feature available in Azure to prevent the removal or change of resources within an Azure tenant (depending on which type of lock is applied). They can be applied to subscriptions, resource groups or just individual...
Reading Time: 5 minutes Building upon Azure Databricks, I’ll move from the compute engine to data storage. Things are a little simpler to secure but the plethora of options available can have significant impacts on usability and cost
Reading Time: 4 minutes Amid the plethora of announcements coming out of the DATA + AI Summit a few weeks back, there was a distinct message from Databricks on the importance of data sharing. During the keynote Matei Zaharia referenced a Gartner report quoting...
Reading Time: 4 minutes Azure Resource locks are a feature available in Azure to prevent the removal or change of resources within an Azure tenant (depending on which type of lock is applied). They can be applied to subscriptions, resource groups or just individual...
Reading Time: 5 minutes Building upon Azure Databricks, I’ll move from the compute engine to data storage. Things are a little simpler to secure but the plethora of options available can have significant impacts on usability and cost
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the first post of this series, I set out the foundation of our secure Data Lakehouse. It makes sense to continue with the heart of the platform; the compute engine Azure Databricks. Azure Databricks Azure Databricks is an analytics...
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reference architectures are great! You’ve got all of the key components in there, nice and clear. Colourful lines showing how data moves through each stage, product, or service. Great for a slide deck or a proposal to get rid of...
Reading Time: < 1 minute This video session was recorded during Data Toboggan and introduces the concepts of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) before going on to cover everything you need to know to deploy Azure Synapse artifacts.
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Data Maturity is the measure of an organisations ability to successfully utilise the data they create to make data-driven decisions.” There are a great number of factors that contribute to an organisation’s data maturity, both technical and non-technical. The non-technical...
Reading Time: 8 minutes This is part of a series of blog posts where I’ll build out Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps, to test, document, and deploy Azure Data Factory. Start with my first post on CICD for Azure Data...
Reading Time: 2 minutes After publishing the first few posts in my series on CI/CD for Azure Data Factory, I got stuck into the next installment, released yesterday, on how to handle Integration runtimes (which argueably should have come first🤫). This will be my...
Reading Time: 6 minutes This is part of a series of blog posts where I’ll build out Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps, to test, document, and deploy Azure Data Factory. Start with my first post on CICD for Azure Data...
