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Newton Alex leads several Azure Data Analytics teams in Microsoft, India. His team contributes to technologies including Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsight, and many open source technologies, including Apache YARN, Apache Spark, and Apache Hive. He started using Hadoop while at Yahoo, USA, where he helped build the first batch processing pipelines for Yahoo's ad serving team. After Yahoo, he became the leader of the big data team at Pivotal Inc., USA, where he was responsible for the entire open source stack of Pivotal Inc. He later moved to Microsoft and started the Azure Data team in India. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies to help build their data systems on Azure.
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Optimizing pipelines for analytical or transactional purposes

You have surely heard the terms OLAP and OLTP if you have been working in the data domain. Cloud data systems can be broadly classified as either Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) or Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems. Let's understand each of these at a high level.

OLTP systems

OLTP systems, as the name suggests, are built to efficiently process, store, and query transactions. They usually have transaction data flowing into a central ACID-compliant database. The databases contain normalized data that adheres to strict schemas. The data sizes are usually smaller, in the range of gigabytes or terabytes. Predominantly RDBMS-based systems, such as Azure SQL and MySQL, are used for the main database.

OLAP systems

On the other hand, OLAP systems are usually big data systems that typically have a warehouse or key value-based store as the central technology to perform analytical processing. The tasks...

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Newton Alex leads several Azure Data Analytics teams in Microsoft, India. His team contributes to technologies including Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsight, and many open source technologies, including Apache YARN, Apache Spark, and Apache Hive. He started using Hadoop while at Yahoo, USA, where he helped build the first batch processing pipelines for Yahoo's ad serving team. After Yahoo, he became the leader of the big data team at Pivotal Inc., USA, where he was responsible for the entire open source stack of Pivotal Inc. He later moved to Microsoft and started the Azure Data team in India. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies to help build their data systems on Azure.
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