Author: Terica Anderson
Azure Event Hubs – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
Azure Event Hubs is an endpoint for ingesting data at high‐scale frequencies. There are numerous ways to move data into a datastore, such as by creating a connection to a database via code running on a website or within a client application. The problem with that approach is that databases typically have a limit on…
Read MoreACL and POSIX Security Model – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
When you’re securing files and folders, the access permission level (aka Access ACL) is critical. The access permission level has to do with what actions a person or entity can perform on those files or folders. Table 1.5 describes those permissions. TABLE 1.5 File/folder access permission levels Permission File permission Directory permission Execute (X) No…
Read MoreAzure Stream Analytics – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
Azure Stream Analytics can be used to analyze data flowing in from an IoT device or from any other numerous kinds of message producers. Event Hubs and IoT Hubs are what you use to ingest those messages at scale. Those messages are placed into a queue and then processed by a consumer that has subscribed…
Read MoreAzure Data Lake Storage – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) is a fundamental piece of most enterprise data analytics solutions running on Azure. This product is optimized for Big Data analytics workloads. ADLS accomplishes this by providing storage capacity of up to multiple exabytes of data and supplying access to that data at a throughput of hundreds of gigabytes per…
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