In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of their serverless, code-free Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) capability inside of Azure Data Factory called Mapping Data Flows.

In response to developer feedback, Microsoft is taking a page from the growing visual, low-code development approach to simplify Big Data analytics in the cloud with Azure Data Factory.

Whether you're shifting ETL workloads to the cloud or visually building data transformation pipelines, version 2 of Azure Data Factory lets you leverage conventional and open source technologies ...

In “ Designing a metadata-driven ETL framework with Azure ADF: An architectural perspective,” I laid the groundwork for a scalable, metadata-driven ETL framework using Azure Data Factory (ADF).