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May 10, 2026 1 min read

Fabric Data Factory Notes: designing pipelines for failure, not the happy path

Fabric Data Factory Engineering

May 9, 2026 1 min read

OneLake Discipline: building discoverability into workspace design

Fabric OneLake Governance

May 8, 2026 1 min read

Designing Better Lakehouse Flows in Fabric: turning messy raw zones into reliable products

Fabric Data Architecture

May 7, 2026 1 min read

LLM Cost and Latency Notes: using caching where it actually pays off

May 6, 2026 1 min read

Data Quality Work That Actually Sticks: separating incident response from root-cause fixes

Data Quality Observability

May 5, 2026 1 min read

Agent Design Notes: designing fallback behavior before launch

AI Agents Architecture

May 4, 2026 1 min read

RAG Systems That Hold Up: deciding where hybrid search is worth the complexity

May 3, 2026 1 min read

LLM Evaluation Journal: treating quality as a product metric

AI LLM Evaluation

May 2, 2026 1 min read

Foundry in Daily Engineering Work: using Foundry for safer model lifecycle management

Microsoft Foundry AI LLM

May 1, 2026 1 min read

Streaming Design Notes in Fabric: keeping streaming dashboards useful after week one

Fabric Real-Time KQL

Apr 30, 2026 1 min read

Fabric Warehouse Tradeoffs: building models analysts can trust without constant hand-holding

Fabric Warehouse SQL

Apr 29, 2026 1 min read

Orchestration Lessons in Fabric: debugging pipeline latency before it becomes a fire drill

Fabric Data Factory Engineering

Apr 28, 2026 1 min read

OneLake Discipline: why governance has to be designed before scale

Fabric OneLake Governance

Apr 27, 2026 1 min read

Designing Better Lakehouse Flows in Fabric: why table contracts matter before notebooks scale

Fabric Data Architecture

Apr 26, 2026 1 min read

Practical AI Performance Tuning: setting latency budgets per user journey

Apr 25, 2026 1 min read

Observability for Data Products: turning data quality from blame into process

Data Quality Observability

Apr 24, 2026 1 min read

Where Agent Systems Break: state handling patterns that reduce agent confusion

AI Agents Architecture

Apr 23, 2026 1 min read

What Improved My RAG Pipeline: why citation UX matters as much as relevance

Apr 22, 2026 1 min read

How I Evaluate LLM Changes: building eval sets from real user queries

AI LLM Evaluation

Apr 21, 2026 1 min read

Foundry Decisions I Stand Behind: using Foundry for safer model lifecycle management

Microsoft Foundry AI LLM

Apr 20, 2026 1 min read

Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric: aligning action thresholds with business impact

Fabric Real-Time KQL

Apr 19, 2026 1 min read

Making Fabric Warehouse Boring and Reliable: when I use warehouse tables vs lakehouse shortcuts

Fabric Warehouse SQL

Apr 18, 2026 1 min read

Orchestration Lessons in Fabric: how I keep orchestration readable over time

Fabric Data Factory Engineering

Apr 17, 2026 1 min read

OneLake Shortcuts in Practice: balancing speed and access boundaries

Fabric OneLake Governance