Hey friends and welcome to my training workshops on Azure Data Integration Pipelines.
Over the coming hours or days (depending on your chosen workshop) we will be all becoming pipeline workers!... And I completely recommend this description when describing your job to non-technical family members. But be warned, if you go on to tell them that the factory of pipes is in the cloud for orchestration and integration you are likely to be branded as crazy. However, here and now that is ok. You are amongst like-minded geeky friends that all want to become cloud pipeline workers that doing data plumbing with data pipes as well :-)
On a more serious note, throughout our day of training you will quickly notice, like with most technologies, there are an awful lot of different ways you can implement Azure orchestration services and understanding the best way to do something is often the biggest challenge. That said, if you only take away one thing from this training, I will ask that you have an appreciation of this fact; in depends! Then when delivering solutions you take a step back from the requirements and think about the overall technical design and how Azure Integration Pipelines should fit into your platform as a core component.
All too often with new and sh iny services we start playing around then try to make the technology fit our solution. Rather than thinking about the solution requirements and which technology meets our needs. This is true of all developers, I don't want to preach, so am simply asking that we take a growth mindset. Think about the outputs and the requirements as a goal.
- A Day of Fundamentals - 1 Day
- Fundamentals to Level 300 - 1 Day
- Advanced Design & Delivery - 1 Day
- Advanced Design & Delivery (A Deep Dive) - 2 Day
- Zero to Level 401 - 3 Day
If participating in any of these training workshop there will be labs to work through and demo code to optionally participate in. These labs will focus on the development of Azure data platform resources, it is therefore recommended that you bring the following ready to use. There will be little spare time for initial setup work.
- Most importantly, access to a Microsoft Azure Tenant including a usable Azure Subscription.
- A free trial account is sufficient, but please have this setup prior to the event to avoid delays.
- This should include the ability to provision resources in an Azure Resource Group with owner level access.
- A developer laptop with power and some form of WiFi connectivity (sorry if obvious).
- Suggested software to be installed on your laptop to make the learning experience run smoothly:
- A modern web browser, Microsoft Edge or similar as preferred.
- A suitable IDE, VSCode or Visual Studio including Azure development extensions.
- Database tools, SQL Server Management Studio or Azure Data Studio.
- GitHub desktop or similar for repository interaction.
- Azure Storage Explorer.
- A PDF file viewer.
- Play the Azure Icon Game, it will help. See blog post for context: https://mrpaulandrew.com/2017/12/15/the-azure-icon-game
For software downloads, please complete these tasks prior to the event to avoid internet bandwidth contention for other attendees.
Many thanks
Paul Andrew is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Technical Architect within the Avanade Centre of Excellence team, with over 15 years' experience in the industry, working as an engineer and solution architect. Day-to-day Paul is accountable for delivering enterprise grade data insights to international organisations where he wields the complete stack of Azure Data Platform resources. Paul leads delivery teams around the globe implementing the latest design patterns, creating architectural innovations, and defining best practice to ensure technical excellence for customers across a wide variety of industry verticals. Paul is passionate about technology, which is demonstrated in the community, he speaks at events and shares his knowledge gained from real world experience through his blog. Paul maintains the view that his job is also his hobby and doesn't ever want to take his fingers off the developers keyboard while maintaining a growth mindset.
