* Welcome Vlad Riscutia

This week, we're delighted to have Vlad Riscutia helping to answer questions about the new book Azure Data Engineering.


The promotion starts Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 and will end on Friday, January 8th, 2021

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Manning Publications.


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Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing, and should be reserved for welcoming the author. Questions posted in this topic are subject to removal.

Welcome to the Ranch and I hope you have lots of awkward interesting questions.

Hi everyone! Glad to be here and I'm happy to answer questions to the best of my ability.

Again, welcome, but I think it is really welcome back

How did you end up using Azure? Is it something you were familiar with from your 'day job', or did you see some specific advantages in the data engineering space that Azure had over the other cloud providers?

Eric Weinberg wrote:How did you end up using Azure? Is it something you were familiar with from your 'day job', or did you see some specific advantages in the data engineering space that Azure had over the other cloud providers?

Well, I work at Microsoft