Preface

We live in a connected digital era and we are witnessing unprecedented growth of data. Organizations that are able to analyze big data are demonstrating significant return on investment by detecting fraud, improved operations, and reduced time to analyze with a scale-out architecture such as Hadoop. Azure HDInsight is an enterprise-ready distribution of Hadoop hosted in the cloud and provides advanced integration with Excel and .NET without the need to buy or maintain physical hardware.

This book is your guide to building a modern data architecture using HDInsight to enable your organization to gain insights from various sources, including smart-connected devices, databases, and social media. This book will take you through a journey of building the next generation Enterprise Data Lake that consists of ingestion, transformation, and analysis of big data with a specific use case that can apply to almost any organization.

This book has working code that developers can leverage and extend in order to fit their use cases with additional references for self-learning.