Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics platform designed for organizations that covers everything from data storage and data movement to data science and real-time analytics. It’s a unified platform that brings together a diverse range of technologies and tools into a single solution. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including data lake, data engineering, and data integration, all in one place. Components of Microsoft Fabric As part of the Microsoft Fabric trial, users can access six exciting services. One component called Data Activator is currently still in private preview but will likely become available soon, so keep an eye out for updates! Now… Read more
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What is SaaS and PaaS?
PaaS and SaaS are just two of the major categories of cloud computing provided by a third-party. PaaSProgrammers want to focus on code – not on building and maintaining infrastructure. That’s why platform as a service (PaaS) is so incredibly popular. Offered via a cloud service provider’s hosted infrastructure, PaaS users are traditionally able to access a software development platform via a web browser. Easy access to a suite of development tools means programmers can program – and businesses can quickly deploy new applications. SaaSSoftware as a service (SaaS) is the most commonly used option for businesses in the cloud… Read more
Azure Data Services
Azure Data Factory Azure Data Factory is an Azure service that enables you to define and schedule data pipelines to transfer and transform data. You can integrate your pipelines with other Azure services, enabling you to ingest data from cloud data stores, process the data using cloud-based compute, and persist the results in another data store. Azure Data Factory is used by data engineers to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) solutions that populate analytical data stores with data from transactional systems across the organization. Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics is a comprehensive, unified Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution for data analytics that provides a… Read more
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB supports multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable developers to use the programming semantics of many common kinds of data store to work with data in a Cosmos DB database. The internal data structure is abstracted, enabling developers to use Cosmos DB to store and query data using APIs with which they’re already familiar. When to use Cosmos DB Cosmos DB is a highly scalable database management system. Cosmos DB automatically allocates space in a container for your partitions, and each partition can grow up to 10 GB in size. Indexes are created and maintained automatically. There’s… Read more
Azure BLOB Storage
Azure Blob Storage is a service that enables you to store massive amounts of unstructured data as binary large objects, or blobs, in the cloud. Blobs are an efficient way to store data files in a format that is optimized for cloud-based storage, and applications can read and write them by using the Azure blob storage API. Azure Blob Storage supports three different types of blob: Blob storage provides three access tiers, which help to balance access latency and storage cost: