As the volume, velocity, and variety of data grow, organizations increasingly depend on data lakes for data storage, governance, blending, and analysis. A data lake enables organizations to collect a larger volume and variety of data without the rigidity and overhead of traditional data warehouse architectures. Additionally, data lakes provide a place for data-focused users to experiment with datasets and find value without involving IT or spinning up a large project.  This W

Microsoft recently released new functionality within VSCode to easily explore the contents of your Azure Data Lake. Previously, your options were to explore the Data Lake Store and U-SQL catalog via. Visual Studio or the Azure Portal. Visual Studio Code(VSCode) is a modern platform where you can develop on a multitude of languages with support for products such as Azure Data Lake Analytics. This blog post can be read on the talavant website here: https://www.talavant.com/expl

Microsoft has recently incorporated the well-renowned Databricks platform into Azure as a 1st class tool. 1st class being natively supported in other tools such as Azure Data Factory. Azure Databricks is a big step forward in the world of big data and data science. It is a unified Apache Spark platform that allows collaboration between Data Scientist and Data Engineers through notebooks that are integrated directly into the application. It allows you to code in  SQL, Scala, R