Quickly build and deploy massive data pipelines and improve productivity using Azure Databricks Key FeaturesGet to grips with the distributed training and deployment of machine learning and deep learning modelsLearn how ETLs are integrated with Azure Data Factory and Delta LakeExplore deep learning and machine learning models in a distributed computing infrastructureBook Description Microsoft Azure Databricks helps you to harness the power of distributed computing and apply it to create robust data pipelines, along with training and deploying machine learning and deep learning models. Databricks' advanced features enable developers to process, transform, and explore data. Distributed Data Systems with Azure Databricks will help you to put your knowledge of Databricks to work to create big data pipelines. The book provides a hands-on approach to implementing Azure Databricks and its associated methodologies that will make you productive in no time. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you’ll begin with a quick introduction to Databricks core functionalities, before performing distributed model training and inference using TensorFlow and Spark MLlib. As you advance, you’ll explore MLflow Model Serving on Azure Databricks and implement distributed training pipelines using HorovodRunner in Databricks. Finally, you’ll discover how to transform, use, and obtain insights from massive amounts of data to train predictive models and create entire fully working data pipelines. By the end of this MS Azure book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of how to work with Databricks to create and manage an entire big data pipeline. What you will learnCreate ETLs for big data in Azure DatabricksTrain, manage, and deploy machine learning and deep learning modelsIntegrate Databricks with Azure Data Factory for extract, transform, load (ETL) pipeline creationDiscover how to use Horovod for distributed deep learningFind out how to use Delta Engine to query and process data from Delta LakeUnderstand how to use Data Factory in combination with DatabricksUse Structured Streaming in a production-like environmentWho this book is for This book is for software engineers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data engineers who are new to Azure Databricks and want to build high-quality data pipelines without worrying about infrastructure. Knowledge of Azure Databricks basics is required to learn the concepts covered in this book more effectively. A basic understanding of machine learning concepts and beginner-level Python programming knowledge is also recommended.

Analyze vast amounts of data in record time using Apache Spark with Databricks in the Cloud. Learn the fundamentals, and more, of running analytics on large clusters in Azure and AWS, using Apache Spark with Databricks on top. Discover how to squeeze the most value out of your data at a mere fraction of what classical analytics solutions cost, while at the same time getting the results you need, incrementally faster. This book explains how the confluence of these pivotal technologies gives you enormous power, and cheaply, when it comes to huge datasets. You will begin by learning how cloud infrastructure makes it possible to scale your code to large amounts of processing units, without having to pay for the machinery in advance. From there you will learn how Apache Spark, an open source framework, can enable all those CPUs for data analytics use. Finally, you will see how services such as Databricks provide the power of Apache Spark, without you having to know anything about configuring hardware or software. By removing the need for expensive experts and hardware, your resources can instead be allocated to actually finding business value in the data. This book guides you through some advanced topics such as analytics in the cloud, data lakes, data ingestion, architecture, machine learning, and tools, including Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Python, and SQL. Valuable exercises help reinforce what you have learned. What You Will Learn Discover the value of big data analytics that leverage the power of the cloudGet started with Databricks using SQL and Python in either Microsoft Azure or AWSUnderstand the underlying technology, and how the cloud and Apache Spark fit into the bigger picture See how these tools are used in the real world Run basic analytics, including machine learning, on billions of rows at a fraction of a cost or free Who This Book Is For Data engineers, data scientists, and cloud architects who want or need to run advanced analytics in the cloud. It is assumed that the reader has data experience, but perhaps minimal exposure to Apache Spark and Azure Databricks. The book is also recommended for people who want to get started in the analytics field, as it provides a strong foundation.

A practical guide to implementing a scalable and fast state-of-the-art analytical data estate Key FeaturesStore and analyze data with enterprise-grade security and auditingPerform batch, streaming, and interactive analytics to optimize your big data solutions with easeDevelop and run parallel data processing programs using real-world enterprise scenariosBook Description Azure Data Lake, the modern data warehouse architecture, and related data services on Azure enable organizations to build their own customized analytical platform to fit any analytical requirements in terms of volume, speed, and quality. This book is your guide to learning all the features and capabilities of Azure data services for storing, processing, and analyzing data (structured, unstructured, and semi-structured) of any size. You will explore key techniques for ingesting and storing data and perform batch, streaming, and interactive analytics. The book also shows you how to overcome various challenges and complexities relating to productivity and scaling. Next, you will be able to develop and run massive data workloads to perform different actions. Using a cloud-based big data-modern data warehouse-analytics setup, you will also be able to build secure, scalable data estates for enterprises. Finally, you will not only learn how to develop a data warehouse but also understand how to create enterprise-grade security and auditing big data programs. By the end of this Azure book, you will have learned how to develop a powerful and efficient analytical platform to meet enterprise needs. What you will learnImplement data governance with Azure servicesUse integrated monitoring in the Azure Portal and integrate Azure Data Lake Storage into the Azure MonitorExplore the serverless feature for ad-hoc data discovery, logical data warehousing, and data wranglingImplement networking with Synapse Analytics and Spark poolsCreate and run Spark jobs with Databricks clustersImplement streaming using Azure Functions, a serverless runtime environment on AzureExplore the predefined ML services in Azure and use them in your appWho this book is for This book is for data architects, ETL developers, or anyone who wants to get well-versed with Azure data services to implement an analytical data estate for their enterprise. The book will also appeal to data scientists and data analysts who want to explore all the capabilities of Azure data services, which can be used to store, process, and analyze any kind of data. A beginner-level understanding of data analysis and streaming will be required.

Build and deploy an efficient data processing pipeline for machine learning model training in an elastic, in-parallel model training or multi-tenant cluster and cloud Key FeaturesAccelerate model training and interference with order-of-magnitude time reductionLearn state-of-the-art parallel schemes for both model training and servingA detailed study of bottlenecks at distributed model training and serving stagesBook Description Reducing time cost in machine learning leads to a shorter waiting time for model training and a faster model updating cycle. Distributed machine learning enables machine learning practitioners to shorten model training and inference time by orders of magnitude. With the help of this practical guide, you'll be able to put your Python development knowledge to work to get up and running with the implementation of distributed machine learning, including multi-node machine learning systems, in no time. You'll begin by exploring how distributed systems work in the machine learning area and how distributed machine learning is applied to state-of-the-art deep learning models. As you advance, you'll see how to use distributed systems to enhance machine learning model training and serving speed. You'll also get to grips with applying data parallel and model parallel approaches before optimizing the in-parallel model training and serving pipeline in local clusters or cloud environments. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge and skills needed to build and deploy an efficient data processing pipeline for machine learning model training and inference in a distributed manner. What you will learnDeploy distributed model training and serving pipelinesGet to grips with the advanced features in TensorFlow and PyTorchMitigate system bottlenecks during in-parallel model training and servingDiscover the latest techniques on top of classical parallelism paradigmExplore advanced features in Megatron-LM and Mesh-TensorFlowUse state-of-the-art hardware such as NVLink, NVSwitch, and GPUsWho this book is for This book is for data scientists, machine learning engineers, and ML practitioners in both academia and industry. A fundamental understanding of machine learning concepts and working knowledge of Python programming is assumed. Prior experience implementing ML/DL models with TensorFlow or PyTorch will be beneficial. You'll find this book useful if you are interested in using distributed systems to boost machine learning model training and serving speed.

Accelerate computations and make the most of your data effectively and efficiently on Databricks Key FeaturesUnderstand Spark optimizations for big data workloads and maximizing performanceBuild efficient big data engineering pipelines with Databricks and Delta LakeEfficiently manage Spark clusters for big data processingBook Description Databricks is an industry-leading, cloud-based platform for data analytics, data science, and data engineering supporting thousands of organizations across the world in their data journey. It is a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based big data analytics platform for data science and data engineering in the cloud. In Optimizing Databricks Workloads, you will get started with a brief introduction to Azure Databricks and quickly begin to understand the important optimization techniques. The book covers how to select the optimal Spark cluster configuration for running big data processing and workloads in Databricks, some very useful optimization techniques for Spark DataFrames, best practices for optimizing Delta Lake, and techniques to optimize Spark jobs through Spark core. It contains an opportunity to learn about some of the real-world scenarios where optimizing workloads in Databricks has helped organizations increase performance and save costs across various domains. By the end of this book, you will be prepared with the necessary toolkit to speed up your Spark jobs and process your data more efficiently. What you will learnGet to grips with Spark fundamentals and the Databricks platformProcess big data using the Spark DataFrame API with Delta LakeAnalyze data using graph processing in DatabricksUse MLflow to manage machine learning life cycles in DatabricksFind out how to choose the right cluster configuration for your workloadsExplore file compaction and clustering methods to tune Delta tablesDiscover advanced optimization techniques to speed up Spark jobsWho this book is for This book is for data engineers, data scientists, and cloud architects who have working knowledge of Spark/Databricks and some basic understanding of data engineering principles. Readers will need to have a working knowledge of Python, and some experience of SQL in PySpark and Spark SQL is beneficial.

Build a data platform to the industry-leading standards set by Microsoft’s own infrastructure. Summary In Data Engineering on Azure you will learn how to: Pick the right Azure services for different data scenarios Manage data inventory Implement production quality data modeling, analytics, and machine learning workloads Handle data governance Using DevOps to increase reliability Ingesting, storing, and distributing data Apply best practices for compliance and access control Data Engineering on Azure reveals the data management patterns and techniques that support Microsoft’s own massive data infrastructure. Author Vlad Riscutia, a data engineer at Microsoft, teaches you to bring an engineering rigor to your data platform and ensure that your data prototypes function just as well under the pressures of production. You'll implement common data modeling patterns, stand up cloud-native data platforms on Azure, and get to grips with DevOps for both analytics and machine learning. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Build secure, stable data platforms that can scale to loads of any size. When a project moves from the lab into production, you need confidence that it can stand up to real-world challenges. This book teaches you to design and implement cloud-based data infrastructure that you can easily monitor, scale, and modify. About the book In Data Engineering on Azure you’ll learn the skills you need to build and maintain big data platforms in massive enterprises. This invaluable guide includes clear, practical guidance for setting up infrastructure, orchestration, workloads, and governance. As you go, you’ll set up efficient machine learning pipelines, and then master time-saving automation and DevOps solutions. The Azure-based examples are easy to reproduce on other cloud platforms. What's inside Data inventory and data governance Assure data quality, compliance, and distribution Build automated pipelines to increase reliability Ingest, store, and distribute data Production-quality data modeling, analytics, and machine learning About the reader For data engineers familiar with cloud computing and DevOps. About the author Vlad Riscutia is a software architect at Microsoft. Table of Contents 1 Introduction PART 1 INFRASTRUCTURE 2 Storage 3 DevOps 4 Orchestration PART 2 WORKLOADS 5 Processing 6 Analytics 7 Machine learning PART 3 GOVERNANCE 8 Metadata 9 Data quality 10 Compliance 11 Distributing data

Get to grips with building and productionizing end-to-end big data solutions in Azure and learn best practices for working with large datasets Key FeaturesIntegrate with Azure Synapse Analytics, Cosmos DB, and Azure HDInsight Kafka Cluster to scale and analyze your projects and build pipelinesUse Databricks SQL to run ad hoc queries on your data lake and create dashboardsProductionize a solution using CI/CD for deploying notebooks and Azure Databricks Service to various environmentsBook Description Azure Databricks is a unified collaborative platform for performing scalable analytics in an interactive environment. The Azure Databricks Cookbook provides recipes to get hands-on with the analytics process, including ingesting data from various batch and streaming sources and building a modern data warehouse. The book starts by teaching you how to create an Azure Databricks instance within the Azure portal, Azure CLI, and ARM templates. You'll work through clusters in Databricks and explore recipes for ingesting data from sources, including files, databases, and streaming sources such as Apache Kafka and EventHub. The book will help you explore all the features supported by Azure Databricks for building powerful end-to-end data pipelines. You'll also find out how to build a modern data warehouse by using Delta tables and Azure Synapse Analytics. Later, you'll learn how to write ad hoc queries and extract meaningful insights from the data lake by creating visualizations and dashboards with Databricks SQL. Finally, you'll deploy and productionize a data pipeline as well as deploy notebooks and Azure Databricks service using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). By the end of this Azure book, you'll be able to use Azure Databricks to streamline different processes involved in building data-driven apps. What you will learnRead and write data from and to various Azure resources and file formatsBuild a modern data warehouse with Delta Tables and Azure Synapse AnalyticsExplore jobs, stages, and tasks and see how Spark lazy evaluation worksHandle concurrent transactions and learn performance optimization in Delta tablesLearn Databricks SQL and create real-time dashboards in Databricks SQLIntegrate Azure DevOps for version control, deploying, and productionizing solutions with CI/CD pipelinesDiscover how to use RBAC and ACLs to restrict data accessBuild end-to-end data processing pipeline for near real-time data analyticsWho this book is for This recipe-based book is for data scientists, data engineers, big data professionals, and machine learning engineers who want to perform data analytics on their applications. Prior experience of working with Apache Spark and Azure is necessary to get the most out of this book.

Get up and running, and productive in no time with MLflow using the most effective machine learning engineering approach Key FeaturesExplore machine learning workflows for stating ML problems in a concise and clear manner using MLflowUse MLflow to iteratively develop a ML model and manage it Discover and work with the features available in MLflow to seamlessly take a model from the development phase to a production environmentBook Description MLflow is a platform for the machine learning life cycle that enables structured development and iteration of machine learning models and a seamless transition into scalable production environments. This book will take you through the different features of MLflow and how you can implement them in your ML project. You will begin by framing an ML problem and then transform your solution with MLflow, adding a workbench environment, training infrastructure, data management, model management, experimentation, and state-of-the-art ML deployment techniques on the cloud and premises. The book also explores techniques to scale up your workflow as well as performance monitoring techniques. As you progress, you'll discover how to create an operational dashboard to manage machine learning systems. Later, you will learn how you can use MLflow in the AutoML, anomaly detection, and deep learning context with the help of use cases. In addition to this, you will understand how to use machine learning platforms for local development as well as for cloud and managed environments. This book will also show you how to use MLflow in non-Python-based languages such as R and Java, along with covering approaches to extend MLflow with Plugins. By the end of this machine learning book, you will be able to produce and deploy reliable machine learning algorithms using MLflow in multiple environments. What you will learnDevelop your machine learning project locally with MLflow's different featuresSet up a centralized MLflow tracking server to manage multiple MLflow experimentsCreate a model life cycle with MLflow by creating custom modelsUse feature streams to log model results with MLflowDevelop the complete training pipeline infrastructure using MLflow featuresSet up an inference-based API pipeline and batch pipeline in MLflowScale large volumes of data by integrating MLflow with high-performance big data librariesWho this book is for This book is for data scientists, machine learning engineers, and data engineers who want to gain hands-on machine learning engineering experience and learn how they can manage an end-to-end machine learning life cycle with the help of MLflow. Intermediate-level knowledge of the Python programming language is expected.

Solve real-world data problems and create data-driven workflows for easy data movement and processing at scale with Azure Data Factory Key FeaturesLearn how to load and transform data from various sources, both on-premises and on cloudUse Azure Data Factory’s visual environment to build and manage hybrid ETL pipelinesDiscover how to prepare, transform, process, and enrich data to generate key insightsBook Description Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a modern data integration tool available on Microsoft Azure. This Azure Data Factory Cookbook helps you get up and running by showing you how to create and execute your first job in ADF. You’ll learn how to branch and chain activities, create custom activities, and schedule pipelines. This book will help you to discover the benefits of cloud data warehousing, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage, which are frequently used for big data analytics. With practical recipes, you’ll learn how to actively engage with analytical tools from Azure Data Services and leverage your on-premise infrastructure with cloud-native tools to get relevant business insights. As you advance, you’ll be able to integrate the most commonly used Azure Services into ADF and understand how Azure services can be useful in designing ETL pipelines. The book will take you through the common errors that you may encounter while working with ADF and show you how to use the Azure portal to monitor pipelines. You’ll also understand error messages and resolve problems in connectors and data flows with the debugging capabilities of ADF. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use ADF as the main ETL and orchestration tool for your data warehouse or data platform projects. What you will learnCreate an orchestration and transformation job in ADFDevelop, execute, and monitor data flows using Azure SynapseCreate big data pipelines using Azure Data Lake and ADFBuild a machine learning app with Apache Spark and ADFMigrate on-premises SSIS jobs to ADFIntegrate ADF with commonly used Azure services such as Azure ML, Azure Logic Apps, and Azure FunctionsRun big data compute jobs within HDInsight and Azure DatabricksCopy data from AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage to Azure Storage using ADF's built-in connectorsWho this book is for This book is for ETL developers, data warehouse and ETL architects, software professionals, and anyone who wants to learn about the common and not-so-common challenges faced while developing traditional and hybrid ETL solutions using Microsoft's Azure Data Factory. You’ll also find this book useful if you are looking for recipes to improve or enhance your existing ETL pipelines. Basic knowledge of data warehousing is expected.

Over 90 recipes to help you orchestrate modern ETL/ELT workflows and perform analytics using Azure services more easily Key FeaturesBuild highly efficient ETL pipelines using the Microsoft Azure Data servicesCreate and execute real-time processing solutions using Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Data ExplorerDesign and execute batch processing solutions using Azure Data FactoryBook Description Data engineering is one of the faster growing job areas as Data Engineers are the ones who ensure that the data is extracted, provisioned and the data is of the highest quality for data analysis. This book uses various Azure services to implement and maintain infrastructure to extract data from multiple sources, and then transform and load it for data analysis. It takes you through different techniques for performing big data engineering using Microsoft Azure Data services. It begins by showing you how Azure Blob storage can be used for storing large amounts of unstructured data and how to use it for orchestrating a data workflow. You'll then work with different Cosmos DB APIs and Azure SQL Database. Moving on, you'll discover how to provision an Azure Synapse database and find out how to ingest and analyze data in Azure Synapse. As you advance, you'll cover the design and implementation of batch processing solutions using Azure Data Factory, and understand how to manage, maintain, and secure Azure Data Factory pipelines. You'll also design and implement batch processing solutions using Azure Databricks and then manage and secure Azure Databricks clusters and jobs. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn how to process streaming data using Azure Stream Analytics and Data Explorer. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the knowledge you need to be able to orchestrate batch and real-time ETL workflows in Microsoft Azure. What you will learnUse Azure Blob storage for storing large amounts of unstructured dataPerform CRUD operations on the Cosmos Table APIImplement elastic pools and business continuity with Azure SQL DatabaseIngest and analyze data using Azure Synapse AnalyticsDevelop Data Factory data flows to extract data from multiple sourcesManage, maintain, and secure Azure Data Factory pipelinesProcess streaming data using Azure Stream Analytics and Data ExplorerWho this book is for This book is for Data Engineers, Database administrators, Database developers, and extract, load, transform (ETL) developers looking to build expertise in Azure Data engineering using a recipe-based approach. Technical architects and database architects with experience in designing data or ETL applications either on-premise or on any other cloud vendor who wants to learn Azure Data engineering concepts will also find this book useful. Prior knowledge of Azure fundamentals and data engineering concepts is needed.