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Fabric's Data Engineering Agent: Set Guardrails Before Autonomy
Fabric's preview data engineering agent runs with the launching engineer's permissions. What to delegate first, which settings to pick, and what stays human.
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35 articles
7 min read
PBIR Is Now the Default: What Changes for Report Source Control
Developer mode and PBIP are GA and PBIR becomes the default report format. Why that makes report review realistic, what breaks, and how to stage the move.
11 min read
Fabric Item CI/CD Is Mostly Solved. Your Tenant Isn't
Git integration and fabric-cicd ship Fabric items well. Workspaces, capacity, domains, roles and tenant settings still need their own source of truth.
8 min read
Real-Time Dashboards in Git: Reviewable Changes and a Way Back
Put Fabric Real-Time Dashboards under Git so tile and query changes are reviewed, validated before Update from Git, and reverted cleanly when they break.
8 min read
Readable Fabric Pipelines: Names, Boundaries and Config Off the Canvas
How to keep Fabric pipelines readable as they grow: naming before the first Git commit, child pipelines with clear contracts, and variable libraries for config.
8 min read
Foundry Agent Versions as Releases: Git, Evals and Publishing
How I'd run Microsoft Foundry agent changes like releases in April 2026: definitions in Git, versions from CI, evaluation gates and Agent Application promotion.
8 min read
The Day-One Pipeline: Push to Main, Ship to App Service
A minimal GitHub Actions to App Service container pipeline for small apps, and the specific signals that tell you when slots, canaries or flags are worth it.
10 min read
Azure DevOps vs GitHub in 2026: Choosing the Whole Platform
A practitioner's comparison of Azure DevOps and GitHub as complete platforms in early 2026: planning, repos, CI/CD, security, cost and when to run both.
1 min read
Building Production MLOps Pipelines with Azure Machine Learning
Automated pipelines ensure reproducibility, enable A/B testing, and provide audit trails for model governance.
1 min read
End-to-End MLOps with Azure Machine Learning and GitHub Actions
Implement approval gates before production deployment. Track model lineage, performance metrics, and data dependencies for full auditability.
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Fabric CI/CD: Building Deployment Pipelines
Implementing CI/CD for Microsoft Fabric ensures reliable, repeatable deployments of analytics artifacts. This guide covers building end-to-end deployment…
7 min read
Fabric's December 2023 Update: What I'd Act On in January
A practitioner's triage of the Microsoft Fabric December 2023 update: %%configure, Git conflict resolution, KQL in OneLake and what to leave alone.
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Fabric Deployment Pipelines: Promoting Content Across Environments
Deployment Pipelines provide controlled, auditable content promotion across environments. Tomorrow, I will cover Fabric Monitoring.
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Fabric Git Integration: Version Control for Your Data Platform
Git integration in Fabric is something I've been waiting for since the first preview. Power BI's lack of proper version control has been a persistent…
1 min read
DevOps Practices That Defined 2022
The four key metrics gained mainstream adoption: Security integrated earlier in the pipeline: IaC practices became more sophisticated: Three pillars…
1 min read
Azure DevOps vs GitHub Actions: Choosing the Right CI/CD Platform
Feature Azure DevOps GitHub Actions YAML Config azure pipelines.yml .github/workflows/ .yml Hosted Runners Microsoft hosted GitHub hosted Self hosted Yes…
1 min read
Azure Pipelines Improvements
Azure Pipelines templates and stages enable maintainable, scalable CI/CD implementations.
1 min read
Azure DevOps Updates - October 2022
Azure DevOps provides enterprise-grade DevOps capabilities with deep Azure integration.
1 min read
GitHub Reusable Workflows Patterns
Reusable workflows reduce duplication and improve maintainability across repositories.
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GitHub Actions Larger Runners Deep Dive
Larger runners can dramatically reduce build times when used effectively with parallelizable workloads.
1 min read
GitHub Actions Improvements - October 2022
GitHub now offers larger hosted runners for more demanding workloads. Enforce workflows across all repositories in an organization.
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Power BI Deployment Pipelines: CI/CD for Analytics
Deployment Pipelines bring enterprise ALM to Power BI: Controlled content promotion Environment specific configurations Audit trail of deployments…
7 min read
ARM What-If in CI/CD: Reviewing Bicep Changes Before They Ship
How to use ARM what-if to review Bicep deployments in pull requests, what its output really tells you, and the noise and blind spots to plan around.
8 min read
Azure DevOps in 2022: Lock Down Your YAML Pipelines First
Going into 2022, the Azure Pipelines features worth adopting are the security controls: environments, checks, protected repos and scoped tokens.
1 min read
CI/CD for Machine Learning: Building Reliable ML Pipelines
ML CI/CD in 2021 became essential for production systems. The tooling caught up with the need, and now there's no excuse for manual deployments.
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Power BI Deployment Pipelines: CI/CD for Business Intelligence
Power BI Deployment Pipelines transform how organizations manage their analytics lifecycle. By bringing CI/CD practices to BI, teams can deliver insights…
1 min read
MLOps Best Practices with Azure Machine Learning
MLOps transforms ML from an experimental practice to a reliable engineering discipline. Azure ML provides the tools to implement these practices at scale.
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GitHub Actions Workflows for Azure Deployments
GitHub Actions workflows for Azure deployment have become my default for any project that lives on GitHub and targets Azure. The Azure/login action with…
1 min read
Azure Pipelines Templates for Reusable CI/CD
Azure Pipelines supports four template types: 1. Stage templates Reusable stages 2. Job templates Reusable jobs 3. Step templates Reusable steps 4. Variable…
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Mastering Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines
Configure in Azure DevOps UI or via YAML: Azure DevOps YAML pipelines provide powerful, version controlled CI/CD capabilities. By leveraging templates,…
1 min read
CI/CD to Azure with GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions went from "interesting alternative to Azure DevOps Pipelines" to "my default CI/CD choice for most new Azure projects" in about twelve…
1 min read
Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates: Reusable CI/CD
Templates transform pipeline chaos into maintainable, standardized CI/CD.
1 min read
GitHub Actions for Azure Deployments
Azure DevOps Pipelines was the obvious answer for years. GitHub Actions in 2020 changed that calculus — for any project where the source already lives on…
1 min read
Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines for Data Projects
The Azure DevOps Classic editor is comfortable, and I've watched many teams resist moving away from it for that exact reason. Until they need to branch a…
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Multi-Stage YAML Pipelines in Azure DevOps: A Starting Skeleton
A practical multi-stage YAML pipeline for .NET Core 3.1 on Azure DevOps: build, test, environments, approvals, templates, and the traps to avoid.