Category: Data Architecture
01
Jul
One-minute trap! How new Fabric Warehouse CU metering affect your workloads
by Nikola
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Microsoft is moving Fabric Warehouse CU metering from per-query CPU time to per-workspace virtual-node time. That brings Fabric closer to Snowflake and Databricks, but it...
18
Jun
Variable libraries in Microsoft Fabric: One value to rule them all!
by Nikola
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Hardcoded values are the cockroaches of a data platform: you think you got them all, then Test starts reading from Prod and nobody notices for...
20
May
CLUSTER BY in Fabric Warehouse: when the magic shows up and when it doesn’t!
by Nikola
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Microsoft's announcement post for data clustering in Fabric Warehouse promised 24x speedups. So I built a 100-million-row clickstream table and tested it myself. The result...
27
Apr
Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric: When your medallion fits in a SELECT statement
by Nikola
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Five surfaces collapsed into one declarative layer. Here's the full story of Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric - from syntax to the new GA...
20
Apr
The Name Game – Naming Microsoft Fabric from tenant to table
by Nikola
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A reference framework for naming everything in Microsoft Fabric - from capacities down to gold-layer fact tables. Patterns, examples, and strong opinions.
26
Mar
Batch or Stream? The Ethernal Data Processing Dilemma
by Nikola
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"Should we process our data in batches or in real-time?" It's not batch vs. stream: it's "when does the answer matter?"
17
Feb
The new house on the block: Why you need a smoke alarm, not just a newspaper
by Nikola
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You’ve probably spent the last year hearing about Lakehouses and Warehouses until your ears are ringing. If a Lakehouse is a massive library and a...
12
Feb
Why every Analytics Engineer needs to understand data architecture
by Nikola
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Get the data architecture right, and everything else becomes easier. Data architecture is the blueprint that determines where your data lives, how it moves between...