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How to skill up while stuck at home 

Whatever situation you find yourself in, whether you’re lucky enough to be in work, have been furloughed or found yourself without work, we’re all spending long stretches at home. It's important to take the best care you can of yourself, but if you find yourself in a position where you want to skill up during some downtime, there are many great resources available with which to do so.

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Azure Cosmos DB: A Completely Unofficial Primer 

Ian Moulster is back with a totally unofficial look at Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, a service that is growing at a phenomenal rate as developers and data scientists across the world start taking advantage of its remarkable capabilities.

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Using the Distance Matrix API for Bing Maps 

The Distance Matrix API allows you to generate travel time and distances (with the help of the Bing Maps Route API) for a given set of origins and destinations. It can also factor in predictive traffic information when generating times thereby allowing you to avoid any potential delays.

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Enterprise-wide orchestration using multiple data factories 

Building simple data engineering pipelines with a single Azure Data Factory (ADF) is easy, and multiple activities can be orchestrated within a single pipeline. More sophisticated data engineering patterns require flexibility and reusability through Pipeline Orchestration.