HOT SEAT: Microsoft Fabric In this rapid fire Q&A Hot Seat, John White, CTO for tyGraph & Evangelist at AvePoint, answers questions on all things Microsoft Fabric. John White is the CTO of tyGraph and Evangelist at AvePoint. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2010 and a dual MVP since 2018 in both Microsoft… READ MORE
In this design series, we’re going to be using Microsoft Fabric to design a corporate-wide Lakehouse, and demonstrate its capabilities.
Using Lakehouse Data at Scale with Power BI, Featuring Direct Lake Mode Many companies have invested heavily in building data lakes to store large volumes of structured and unstructured data from various sources into Delta Parquet files. These Delta Parquet files can be used for a wide range of Analytics and Business Intelligence applications. Most… READ MORE
Azure DevOps has been around the data block for a few years now, and its Git Integration features have allowed developers to perform the following crucial tasks (there are many others, but these are my top three): Backup and version control their work (I’m sure all of you conscientious Devs do this. Don’t you???). Revert… READ MORE
Synapse Link is a great capability, and with the recent news from Microsoft published today, it got even better: Now you can link your Dataverse and Fabric together and query directly from within your Fabric workspace. The best part? It’s completely managed. Apart from a few clicks, you don’t need to do a thing. Here’s… READ MORE
As a Fabric administrator, you are always looking for ways to secure your data and analytics workflows in the cloud. That’s why I’m excited to share with you some of the security features that Fabric offers. Fabric was designed from the outset to protect sensitive assets. It’s built on Azure, which is Microsoft’s public cloud… READ MORE
Data Integration Using Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric What is at the core of every Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning project…? Data! You need data to understand what has happened in the past, to predict what may happen in the future, to discover patterns and anomalies, and to gain the insight necessary for making… READ MORE
Spark configurations are critical in controlling the behavior of your data processing tasks. These configurations influence various aspects of Spark’s performance, from memory management to execution behavior. Typically, these settings are adjusted at the session level, meaning they apply only to the specific Spark session in which they are set. This granularity allows for fine-tuning of… READ MORE
Introduction For a long time, Git has been at the center of IT development. While there are a few patterns on how to use Git, the main idea remains the same. There is a collaboration branch, often called ‘main,’ where developers work from by branching out. At some point, the work in the branch-out branch… READ MORE
Imagine soaring high above the city, the landscape stretching out below, each building, each road, each individual vehicle going about their day. That is the view from a helicopter — a perspective that allows you to see everything at once, yet with the ability to focus on specific details. This is an apt analogy for Microsoft… READ MORE
