Description

From Zero to ADF is designed to jumpstart data engineering and data integration developers, introducing them to Azure Data Factory (ADF). ADF is a cloud data engineering and data integration platform designed to orchestrate data-related activities and move data between sources and sinks in the cloud, on-premises, and combinations thereof.

Lesson 0: Introduction
Lesson 1: Provision a Data Factory
• Examine Azure Portal
• Survey ADF artifacts
• Create Your First ADF Pipeline
Lesson 2: Basic Data Movement
• Copy Data Activity
• Delete Activity
• Stored Procedure Activity
Lesson 3: Pipeline Orchestration
• Conditional, Lookup, ForEach Activities
• Debugging
• Triggers
Lesson 4: Monitoring
• ADF Portal
• Azure Monitor
Lesson 5: Azure-SSIS
• Provision Azure-SSIS instance
• Lifting and shifting on-premises SSIS to Azure-SSIS
Lesson 6: Enterprise ADF Execution Patterns
• Leveraging the Parent-Child design pattern.
Lesson 7: Introduction to Mapping Data Flows

About the Presenter:

Andy Leonard is founder and Chief Data Engineer at Enterprise Data & Analytics, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, creator of the DILM (Data Integration Lifecycle Management) Suite, an SSIS trainer, consultant, developer, Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) developer and BimlHero, SQL Server database and data warehouse developer, community mentor, engineer, and farmer. He is a co-author of The Biml Book and SQL Server Integration Services Design Patterns and author of Managing Geeks - A Journey of Leading by Doing, Data Integration Lifecycle Management with SSIS, Building Custom Tasks for SSIS, and the Stairway to Integration Services. Andy blogs at andyleonard.blog where you can learn more on the About Andy page.