Gerard

With over 20 years of experience in the data & analytics space, I’ve helped many customers architect, design and implement modern, cloud data platforms to turn data into a strategic advantage.

I specialise in Microsoft’s suite of data technologies, both in Azure and on-premise. I have however worked with many other vendor products over the years. I have successfully delivered multiple solutions leveraging technologies including but not limited to; Azure Data Factory v2, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Analysis Services, Power BI, Azure SQL Database, Azure Batch and various flavours of IaaS workloads in hybrid environments.

Website: http://gerards.tech

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Schema evolution solved using Delta Lake & Databricks

by Gerard

Gerard’s Tech

Don’t know about you, but one of my least favourite data pipeline errors is
the age-old failure caused by schema changes in the data source, especially
when these don’t...

2019-12-31 (first published: 2019-12-15)

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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4

by Gerard

Gerard’s Tech

This is the fourth and final post in a series about modern Data Lake
Architecture where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using
Delta Lake,...

2019-12-16 (first published: 2019-12-06)

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Schema evolution solved using Delta Lake & Databricks

by Gerard

Gerard’s Tech

Don’t know about you, but one of my least favourite data pipeline errors is
the age-old failure caused by schema changes in the data source, especially
when these don’t...

2019-12-15

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Schema evolution solved using Delta Lake & Databricks

by Gerard

Gerard’s Tech

Don’t know about you, but one of my least favourite data pipeline errors is
the age-old failure caused by schema changes in the data source, especially
when these don’t...

2019-12-15

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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4

by Gerard

Gerard’s Tech

This is the fourth and final post in a series about modern Data Lake
Architecture where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using
Delta Lake,...

2019-12-06

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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4

by Gerard

Gerard’s Tech

This is the fourth and final post in a series about modern Data Lake
Architecture where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using
Delta Lake,...

2019-12-06

79 reads

Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 3

by Gerard

Gerard’s Tech

This is the third post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...

2019-11-20 (first published: 2019-11-13)

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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 3

by Gerard

Gerard’s Tech

This is the third post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...

2019-11-13

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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 3

by Gerard

Gerard’s Tech

This is the third post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...

2019-11-13

12 reads

Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 2

by Gerard

Gerard’s Tech

This is the second post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...

2019-08-29

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Gerard

Schema evolution solved using Delta Lake & Databricks

Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4

Schema evolution solved using Delta Lake & Databricks

Schema evolution solved using Delta Lake & Databricks

Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4

Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4

Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 3

Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 3

Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 3

Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 2

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