At this point, the state of financial planning is a potential major crisis with current and future generations coming upon retirement age with little or no savings to account for.As we’ve moved away from pensions of the old, the responsibility…
Pragmatic Works is considered to be experts in the Microsoft Data Platform, both on-premises and in Azure. That being said, we often get asked many questions like, how can a certain technology benefit my company? One technology we are asked…
You may have seen my previous Azure Every Day post on Azure Data Box and Azure Data Box Disk.These are a great option for getting smaller workloads, up to 80terabytes of data, quickly up into Azure. Rather than moving it…
I’mexcited to announce that Azure Data Factory Data Flow is now in publicpreview and I’ll give you a look at it here. Data Flow is a new featureof Azure Data Factory (ADF) that allows you to develop graphical datatransformation logic…
Ifyou know about or are already using Databricks, I’m excited to tell youabout Databricks Delta. As most of you know, Apache Spark is theunderlining technology for Databricks, so about 75-80% of all the codein Databricks is still Apache Spark. You…
Are you looking to gain speed on your Apache Spark jobs? How does 9X performance speed sound? Today I’m excited to tell you about how engineers at Microsoft were able to gain that speed on HDInsight Apache Spark Clusters. If…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making its way into many industries today, helping to solve business problems and helping with efficiency. In this post, I’d like to share an interesting story about Shell choosing Azure for their AI platform. Shell Oil…
Today I’ll give an overview of Microsoft’s newly released (in preview) Elastic Database Jobs service. This is considered as a fully hosted Azure service, whereas the previous iteration was a custom hosted and managed version available on SQL DB and…
In a previous post, I talked about Azure Databricks and what it is. In review, Azure Databricks is a managed platform for running Apache Spark jobs. As it’s managed, that means you don’t have to worry about managing the cluster…
Today I’m excited to talk about the general availability of Azure Data Factory V2, as well as some new features that have been added over the last couple months. If you don’t know, Azure Data Factory Version 2 added some…