An Overview of Azure Synapse at the St. Louis Microsoft Technology Center.

Join us either in-person or virtually for a great Azure Meetup session covering all things Azure Synapse. April's presenter is Luke Newport who is a Technical Architect (Data and AI) for Microsoft out of our local Microsoft Technology Center (MTC). For those of you interested in attending this event in-person we will be meeting downtown at the MTC and you will get the opportunity to tour the facility. A Microsoft Teams link will be shared to registered attendees prior to the event.

In this session, Luke will cover the modern data warehousing platform in Azure on Synapse.

• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Data Ingestion
• Batch and Streaming patterns
• Data Lake
• Storage and Serverless Data Exploration
• Data Processing
• Synapse Data Flows (low-code)
• Synapse Spark (code-first)
• Data Serving
• Synapse Dedicated and Serverless SQL Pools

Luke Newport is the Technical Architect (Data & AI) for the Microsoft Technology Center in St. Louis. As the Data and AI Architect, Luke helps Microsoft’s customers optimize value from their data estate and transform into data-driven organizations. Luke has been with Microsoft for nine years and previously worked in the Cloud Solution Architect and Premier Field Engineering teams focusing on Database Modernization, Data Warehousing, and Data Engineering.