Azure Data and AI Architect Handbook

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Introduction to Data Architectures

With data quickly becoming an essential asset of any business, the need for cloud data architects has never been higher. The key role these professionals fulfill is to provide the technical blueprints of any cloud data project and expertise on data architectures as a whole. A skilled data architect is proficient in many steps of the end-to-end data processes, such as data ingestion, data warehouses, data transformations, and visualization.

It is of utmost importance that data architects are familiar with the benefits and drawbacks of individual resources as well as platform-wide design patterns. Typically, aspiring data architects have a background as business intelligence (BI) developers, data engineers, ...