Azure Data & Analytics Week #1

Curated list of Azure Data & Analytics articles, tips & more

1. Azure Databricks best practices

A git repo to start exploring Azure Databricks best practices https://github.com/Azure/AzureDatabricksBestPractices/blob/master/toc.md

2. Building metadata-driven pipelines using ADF & Azure Synapse Analytics

An interesting git repo resource to explore the metadata-driven processing framework for ADF & Azure Synapse Analytics

https://github.com/mrpaulandrew/procfwk

3. Azure Synapse Influencer program

Want to get involved in community discussions around Azure Synapse? click the below link for more details

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-synapse-analytics-blog/introducing-the-azure-synapse-influencer-program/ba-p/3389375

4. Azure Synapse Analytics - Database Designer & Database Templates

Recently released Azure Synapse Analytics - Database Designer & Database Template, One can create a database without writing a single line of code and explore database templates and extend them.

Read on https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-synapse-analytics-blog/announcing-general-availability-of-database-designer-amp/ba-p/3294234

Definition of the week

Reverse ETL

Process of moving data from a modern data warehouse(MDW) into 3rd party systems to leverage data value created in MDW