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Michael Rys
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mrys
Michael Rys is a Principal Program Manager in the Azure Big Data team at Microsoft, working on Azure Synapse, .NET support for Spark and other big data projects.
Previous Sessions
Big Data & Data W'housing Together w/ Azure Synapse Analytic
Come learn how Azure Synapse brings together big data and data warehousing through new technology and a unified development experience
Big Data Processing with .NET and Spark
Come learn how to use .NET and Spark together in Azure Synapse and elsewhere to cook and analyze your data!
Execute your custom code in Python/.Net/R @ Scale with U-SQL
In this session, I will showcase how you can bring your Python, R, and .NET code to Azure Data Lake and apply it at scale using U-SQL.
Modernizing ETL with Azure Data Lake
Modernizing ETL with Azure Data Lake: Hyperscale, Multi-format, Multi-platform, & Intelligent
Scaling out your Cloud Database with SQL Azure Federations
In this presentation, we provide an introduction to SQL Azure Federations and also show some interesting patterns that provide additional capabilities such as scale-out query processing, cross-shard schema management and multi-key sharding.