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Apache Ossie and the Portable Semantic Layer: What It Fixes and What It Doesn't
Microsoft backed Apache Ossie at FabCon with a Power BI converter. It makes metric names portable, not DAX semantics, security rules or performance.
Data Architecture
16 articles
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Building Data Lakehouses: Medallion Architecture Best Practices
Each layer serves a specific purpose in the data refinement pipeline. Bronze captures raw data, silver cleans and conforms it, and gold delivers…
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Data Mesh Architecture: Enabling AI at Scale with Decentralized Data
Implement federated governance that balances domain autonomy with enterprise standards for AI-ready data products.
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Data Mesh Implementation: Domain-Oriented Data Products
Data mesh rests on four pillars: domain ownership, data as a product, self-serve data platform, and federated computational governance.
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Rolling Out a Data Mesh on Fabric: A Phased Plan for 2025
A phased plan for rolling out data mesh on Microsoft Fabric and Purview in early 2025: what to build first, what's still preview, and when to stop.
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Unifying Transactional and Analytical Workloads in Fabric
Unifying Transactional and Analytical Workloads in Fabric
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Microsoft Fabric and Databricks: Coexistence Strategies
1. Use shared storage : ADLS as the common data layer 2. Standardize on Delta Lake : Compatible format for both 3. Optimize for readers : Both platforms…
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Cross-Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Fabric
Most enterprises use multiple clouds: 1. Minimize cross cloud joins : Materialize frequently joined data 2. Use shortcuts wisely : Only for data that…
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Lakehouse Federation in Microsoft Fabric
1. Define clear domains : Each lakehouse should own specific data 2. Minimize cross domain joins : Materialize frequently joined data 3. Implement…
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Domain-Driven Design for Data
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles apply to data architecture just as they do to software. Today I'm exploring how to design data systems around business…
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Laying Out OneLake: Workspaces, Lakehouses and Shortcuts
How I decide OneLake layout in Fabric: workspaces as security boundaries, a lakehouse per layer, a flat Tables folder, and shortcuts where copies hurt.
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Fabric Domains: Organizing Your Data Mesh
Fabric Domains are the tenant-level organisational construct that lets large enterprises apply data mesh principles to their Fabric deployment — grouping…
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Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse Architecture: Deep Dive
A week after Build 2023, I'm still unpacking what Microsoft Fabric actually means for how we design data platforms. The Lakehouse is the centrepiece — but…
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OneLake: The Foundation of Microsoft Fabric
OneLake is a single, unified, logical data lake for your entire organization. Think of it as "OneDrive for data" - automatically provisioned when you enable…
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Data Mesh: From Concept to Practice
Data mesh isn't a technology choice - it's an organizational paradigm shift. 2021 was about understanding it; 2022 will be about implementing it.
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Data Engineering Trends That Defined 2021
Data engineering in 2021 matured from a support function to a strategic capability. The tools improved, patterns solidified, and the role gained the…