Modern Azure Data Platform

Overview

After this session, you will be familiar with the positioning, responsibilities, and relevant Azure tools for a modern, Azure-based data platform. Data platform consists of several responsibility areas, such as integrations / IPaaS, APIs / API Management, ETL and IoT streaming pipelines, machine learning, and, of course, data warehousing and BI. In this talk, the presenter will present all of these areas and their responsibilities, including the relevant and most commonly used Azure services, with a decision-tree on what services to pick when. This session is most applicable for enterprise and solution architects, data experts (engineers/scientists), and developers, but can also be mostly followed by IT professionals and decision-makers wishing to understand the cloud stack a bit better. The session is about level 250.

Speaker

Sakari Nahi

CEO at Zure, Microsoft RD, AI & Azure MVP

Sakari is the other founder and CEO of Zure, an Azure-focused company. He has been coding on .NET professionally since 2002. He's a dad of two, husband of one and likes roguelikes & text-based games. He's passionate about emerging technologies, distributed computing, and synergies thereof. Sakari is also a Microsoft Regional Director, and AI+Azure MVP. He organizes Finland Azure User Group and casts a pod Ikkunastudio in Finnish. Zure designs, develops, and manages solutions on Azure, with offices in Finland, Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom and Netherlands.