https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-user-delegation-sas-create-cli
- designed for fault-tolerance, infinite-scalability, high-throughput ingestion of variable-sized data
- used for data exploration, analytics, ML
- could act as a data source for a data warehouse
- raw data ingested into data lake -> transform (with ELT pipeline - data is ingested and transformed in-place) into structured, queryable format
- source data that is already relational can go directly into the data warehouse, skipping the data lake
- often used in event streaming or iot, because they can persist large amounts of relational and non-relational data without transformations or schema definitions