Peter ter Braake - Data Modeling for Azure Data Services: Implement professional data design and structures in Azure

Implement professional data design and structures in Azure

Peter ter Braake

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Peter ter Braake started working as a developer in 1996 after studying physics in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Databases and business intelligence piqued his interest the most, leading to him specializing in SQL Server and its business intelligence components. He has worked with Power BI from the tool's very beginnings. Peter started working as an independent contractor in 2008. This has enabled him to divide his time between teaching data-related classes, consulting with customers, and writing articles and books.

Marcel Alsdorf has been working for 4 years as a cloud solution architect at Microsoft. In his role, he consults companies on cloud computing fundamentals, the construction of modern data warehouse pipelines, event systems, and machine learning applications and tooling. In addition, he lectures on big data fundamentals at a German university. Previously, he worked as an FPGA engineer for the LHC project at CERN and as a software engineer in the banking industry.

I would like to thank Christoph Krner for suggesting me as a reviewer and the team at Packt for giving me the opportunity to help Peter ter Braake create a good starting point for people in terms of understanding the fundamentals of data modeling in Azure.

Alexey Bokov is an experienced Azure architect and has been a Microsoft technical evangelist since 2011 he works closely with Microsoft top-tier customers all around the world to develop applications based on the Azure cloud platform. Building cloud-based applications in the most challenging scenarios is his passion, as well as helping the development community to upskill and learn new things by working hands-on and hacking. He has been a long-time contributor, as a co-author and reviewer, to many Azure books and is an occasional speaker at Kubernetes events.

I'd like to thank my family my beautiful wife, Yana, and my amazing son, Kostya, who have supported my efforts to help the author and publisher of this book.