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Published inFeb 2021
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Stéphane Eyskens
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Stéphane Eyskens

Stéphane Eyskens has a developer background and became a solution architect about a decade ago. As a cloud subject matter expert, he contributed to many digital transformation programs, helping organizations get better results out of their cloud investments. As an MVP, he is an active contributor to the Microsoft Tech Community and has worked on multiple open source projects available on GitHub. Stéphane is also a Pluralsight assessment author as well as the author of multiple books and online recordings.
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Ed Price
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Ed Price is a Senior Program Manager in Engineering at Microsoft, with an MBA in technology management. He leads Microsoft's efforts to publish Reference Architectures on the Azure Architecture Center. Previously, he drove datacenter deployment and customer feedback, and he ran Microsoft's customer feedback programs for Azure development, Service Fabric, IoT, Functions, and Visual Studio. He was also a technical writer at Microsoft for 6 years and helped lead TechNet Wiki. He is the co-author of five books, including Learn to Program with Small Basic and ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners from Packt.
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Diving into big data services

Big data goes way beyond traditional data technologies, so it could have been placed under the MODERN top-level group. However, as stated before, it is easier to make it a separate group for the sake of clarity. In a nutshell, big data deals with data sets that are too large to be handled by traditional data technologies. The good news, however, is that the opposite is possible. You can use big data technologies to handle smaller volumes, and it is doable at an affordable price in the cloud. Figure 6.10 shows the big data landscape in Azure:

Figure 6.10 – Big data in Azure

Figure 6.10 – Big data in Azure

As a preamble, we can say that Azure's data service masterpiece is Azure Synapse Analytics (ASA). ASA can be used for whatever data purpose you may have with Azure. Therefore, it's impossible to position it in a very specific place on the map. So, if you know nothing about Azure data services, you should consider ASA an all-in-one data service...

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Stéphane Eyskens

Stéphane Eyskens has a developer background and became a solution architect about a decade ago. As a cloud subject matter expert, he contributed to many digital transformation programs, helping organizations get better results out of their cloud investments. As an MVP, he is an active contributor to the Microsoft Tech Community and has worked on multiple open source projects available on GitHub. Stéphane is also a Pluralsight assessment author as well as the author of multiple books and online recordings.
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Ed Price

Ed Price is a Senior Program Manager in Engineering at Microsoft, with an MBA in technology management. He leads Microsoft's efforts to publish Reference Architectures on the Azure Architecture Center. Previously, he drove datacenter deployment and customer feedback, and he ran Microsoft's customer feedback programs for Azure development, Service Fabric, IoT, Functions, and Visual Studio. He was also a technical writer at Microsoft for 6 years and helped lead TechNet Wiki. He is the co-author of five books, including Learn to Program with Small Basic and ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners from Packt.
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