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Notes on software engineering, data platforms, AI, and the craft of building things.
Five levers control all Delta table performance in Microsoft Fabric: resource profiles, V-Order, OPTIMIZE and Liquid Clustering, default behaviors, and VACUUM. A decision framework for data engineers and Fabric architects working with Lakehouses at scale.
A structured rubric for assessing Microsoft Fabric operational maturity. Six domains, five levels, and an interactive dashboard to score your deployment and surface prioritized gaps.
Complete coverage of 30+ announcements from the combined FabCon + SQLCon event: Fabric IQ, OneLake Security, Runtime 2.0, Database Hub, and more.
A phased, practical framework for making your Fabric semantic models AI-ready: metadata enrichment, Prep for AI configuration, Data Agent validation, and multi-surface deployment.