Azure Data Factory & Synapse Pipelines: ELT That Keeps Up with the Business

ADF/Synapse Pipelines orchestrate ingestion from SaaS, files, streams into Data Lake + Azure SQL/Synapse with dataflows for transform-at-scale.

Best practices

Parameterize pipelines; template common patterns.

Use managed private endpoints for secure movement.

Separate bronze/silver/gold layers for quality and lineage.

Add Data Quality rules early to stop garbage propagation.

Value
Faster analytics, governed lineage, predictable costs