In this four part blog series I want to share my approach to delivering a metadata driven processing framework in Azure Data Factory. This is very much version 1 of what is possible and where can we build on this to deliver a hardened solution for our platform orchestrator. For the agenda of this blog … Continue reading Creating a Simple Staged Metadata Driven Processing Framework for Azure Data Factory Pipelines – Part 4 of 4
In this four part blog series I want to share my approach to delivering a metadata driven processing framework in Azure Data Factory. This is very much version 1 of what is possible and where can we build on this to deliver a hardened solution for our platform orchestrator. For the agenda of this blog … Continue reading Creating a Simple Staged Metadata Driven Processing Framework for Azure Data Factory Pipelines – Part 3 of 4
In this four part blog series I want to share my approach to delivering a metadata driven processing framework in Azure Data Factory. This is very much version 1 of what is possible and where can we build on this to deliver a hardened solution for our platform orchestrator. For the agenda of this blog … Continue reading Creating a Simple Staged Metadata Driven Processing Framework for Azure Data Factory Pipelines – Part 2 of 4
In this four part blog series I want to share my approach to delivering a metadata driven processing framework in Azure Data Factory. This is very much version 1 of what is possible and where can we build on this to deliver a hardened solution for our platform orchestrator. For the agenda of this blog … Continue reading Creating a Simple Staged Metadata Driven Processing Framework for Azure Data Factory Pipelines – Part 1 of 4
Following on from a previous blog post that I wrote a few months ago where I got an Azure Data Factory Pipeline run status with an Azure Function (link below). I recently found the need to create something very similar to execute any pipeline from an Azure Function. https://mrpaulandrew.com/2019/11/21/get-any-azure-data-factory-pipeline-run-status-with-azure-functions/ Happily, this pipeline execution is basically … Continue reading Execute Any Azure Data Factory Pipeline with an Azure Function
Switching Between Different Azure Databricks Clusters Depending on the Environment (Dev/Test/Prod) As far as I can gather at some point last year, probably around the time of Microsoft Ignite Azure Data Factory (ADF) got another new Activity called Switch. This is excellent and exactly what ADF needed. Nested If activities can get very messy so … Continue reading Using the Azure Data Factory Switch Activity
Best practice for structuring your Azure Data Factory? Hello friends, this post and my next few posts have been born out of a community talk I've delivered a couple of times now at various conferences. In my session I talk about using Azure Data Factory (ADF) in production - inspired by my own lessons learnt … Continue reading Azure Data Factory – Pipeline Hierarchies (Generation Control)
As Azure Data Factory continues to evolve as a powerful cloud orchestration service we need to update our knowledge and understanding of everything the service has to offer. Mainly, so we can make the right design decisions when developing complex, dynamic solution pipelines. In this post I want to explore and share the reasons for … Continue reading Azure Data Factory – Web Hook vs Web Activity
Microsoft recently announced that we can now make our Azure Data Factory (ADF) v2 pipelines even more dynamic with the introduction of parameterised Linked Services. This now completes the set for our core Data Factory components meaning we can now inject parameters into every part of our Data Factory control flow orchestration processes. Pipelines ✔ Activities … Continue reading Using Data Factory Parameterised Linked Services
Many moons ago and in a previous job role I wrote a post for creating an Azure Data Factory v1 Custom Activity here. According to Google Analytics this proved to be one of my most popular blog posts on that site. I therefore feel I need to do an update post with the same information … Continue reading Creating an Azure Data Factory v2 Custom Activity
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