Hello, and welcome to today's lesson on
What Does Azure Have to Offer?
In this lesson, we are going to be taking a look at
some of the basic services that you're going to find
in the DP-203 exam.
Yes, that's it. Simple, straightforward, but very important.
So let's dive into this short lesson.
Introducing Azure Blob, we'll start off here.
Azure Blob is a primary storage service in Azure,
and yes it includes Data Lakes.
So we'll be diving deeper into how you enable Data Lakes
and what that looks like.
But for now, Azure Blob: primary storage service in Azure
that also includes Data Lakes.
Now this is going to be a fairly short lesson
and very high level,
so don't follow our friend, Mr. Squirrel here
and run off into the bushes.
We're going to be diving deeper into all of these services
as we go through the course.
My objective is just to give you a high-level overview
in case you're not familiar with what they are.
So, our next one is Azure Data Factory.
Azure Data Factory is orchestration. It's pipelines.
It's a way that we move data through phases
in our cloud project.
And it's also a way that we orchestrate or administer
the entire pipeline of our cloud project
from start to finish.
Azure Synapse Analytics.
So if you deal in structured data,
Azure Synapse Analytics is definitely the way to go.
Azure Synapse Analytics is actually a compilation
of quite a few different services smashed together.
So we have Data Lakes and database administration
and data pipelines, and a whole bunch of different services
that are kind of cobbled together
into a very slick interface
that allows you to manage structured data.
And so we'll dive into that quite a bit in this course,
but that is a very critical service for Azure.
Azure Stream Analytics.
So Azure Stream Analytics is one of the main services
that we're going to talk about when we look at streaming.
So this gives us the ability to stream data
through our system and do some light transformations
as we go.
Last, but not least, Azure Databricks.
So Databricks is a service that provides ETL
(extract, transform and load)
analytics and machine learning at a massive scale.
For the DP-203, think transformation.
It's really going to be the service
that is going to allow us to transform data,
especially at a massive scale,
when we start talking about big projects.
Databricks is a fantastic tool for that,
so we'll be taking a look there.
So now let's take a look at a diagram
that kind of walks through how some of these services
would play together.
So we have our edge devices, or our ingestion system.
So that's #1.
And we'll talk a little bit about ingestion in this course,
but really for the DP-203,
we're more interested in what happens
once the data gets into the system.
We have our ingestion here at #1.
As we get into #2,
we're going to be talking about analyzing
and transforming data.
So when we talk about transformation,
this could be something like Databricks,
and you see it says streaming,
Databricks can do batch and streaming.
So don't get too hung up on this specific example.
But we have our analyze and transform,
once we have ingested the data.
We also have storage. Storage is where, like I said,
you could do SQL Data Warehouse,
which is now Synapse Analytics.
You could do SQL Database, storage,
there's quite a few different solutions.
For the DP-203, we're going to be looking at Synapse
and we're going to be looking at that Blob storage,
which is Blob and Data Lakes.
And then of course we have insights that come out of this.
So we could have Power BI to get some real-time reporting.
And then the data is exported either
into that Power BI dashboard
or it's pulled into some other sort of step in the process
where we enable a webhook or kick off an Azure function,
or who knows what?
So don't get too lost in this example.
What I wanted to do was just quickly kind of
throw some of these services up in a real-world example
to show you what this actually looks like.
Lastly, I can see it on your face.
Hey, wait, we talked about 5 services.
There's hundreds of services in Azure.
You are correct. This is not an exclusive list.
We are going to be focusing on the services
that you need for the DP-203.
Now, as we move through the course,
we're going to talk about a few edge-case services
a little bit, but we're going to stick closely
to the most prominent services
that you'd find on the DP-203,
because we are interested in getting you to pass the exam.
So just keep that in mind as we move through the course,
and with that, we're on to the next lesson.