Azure Synapse Analytics - The Technology vs The Workspace Abstraction

For those that have been using Azure data platform resources for a while the unified Synapse Analytics Workspace experience makes a lot of sense. However, for those that are new to Azure translating the technology requirements to a given use case can be hard. In this short sharp session, we’ll look at what each of the Synapse Analytics tools can do for our data workloads. We’ll decrypt the workspace experience into simple compute and storage components regardless of how you choose to ‘develop’ or ‘integrate’ your data. Let’s remove the pretty UI abstraction, what is the technology I’m working with underneath.