Azure Data and AI Architect Handbook: Adopt a structured approach to designing data and AI solutions at scale on Microsoft Azure - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Master core data architecture design concepts and Azure Data & AI services to gain a cloud data and AI architect’s perspective to developing end-to-end solutions

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Key Features

• Translate and implement conceptual architectures with the right Azure services
• Inject artificial intelligence into data solutions for advanced analytics
• Leverage cloud computing and frameworks to drive data science workloads

Book Description

With data’s growing importance in businesses, the need for cloud data and AI architects has never been higher. The Azure Data and AI Architect Handbook is designed to assist any data professional or academic looking to advance their cloud data platform designing skills. This book will help you understand all the individual components of an end-to-end data architecture and how to piece them together into a scalable and robust solution.

You’ll begin by getting to grips with core data architecture design concepts and Azure Data & AI services, before exploring cloud landing zones and best practices for building up an enterprise-scale data platform from scratch. Next, you’ll take a deep dive into various data domains such as data engineering, business intelligence, data science, and data governance. As you advance, you’ll cover topics ranging from learning different methods of ingesting data into the cloud to designing the right data warehousing solution, managing large-scale data transformations, extracting valuable insights, and learning how to leverage cloud computing to drive advanced analytical workloads. Finally, you’ll discover how to add data governance, compliance, and security to solutions.

By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the expertise needed to become a well-rounded Azure Data & AI architect.

What you will learn

• Design scalable and cost-effective cloud data platforms on Microsoft Azure
• Explore architectural design patterns with various use cases
• Determine the right data stores and data warehouse solutions
• Discover best practices for data orchestration and transformation
• Help end users to visualize data using interactive dashboarding
• Leverage OpenAI and custom ML models for advanced analytics
• Manage security, compliance, and governance for the data estate

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone looking to elevate their skill set to the level of an architect. Data engineers, data scientists, business intelligence developers, and database administrators who want to learn how to design end-to-end data solutions and get a bird’s-eye view of the entire data platform will find this book useful. Although not required, basic knowledge of databases and data engineering workloads is recommended.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Data Architectures
2. Preparing for Cloud Adoption
3. Ingesting Data into the Cloud
4. Transforming Data on Azure
5. Storing Data for Consumption
6. Data Warehousing
7. The Semantic Layer
8. Visualizing Data Using Power BI
9. Advanced Analytics Using AI
10. Enterprise-Level Data Governance and Compliance
11. Introduction to Data Security

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