Figuring Out Fabric: Learn Fabric in 30 minutes.
Each week I’ll be interviewing experts and users alike on their experience with Fabric, warts and all. I can guarantee that we’ll have voices you aren’t used to and perspectives you won’t expect.
Each episode will be 30 minutes long with a single topic, so you can listen during your commute or while you exercise. Skip the topics you aren’t interested in. This will be a podcast that respects your time and your intelligence. No 2 hour BS sessions.
Episodes
12 episodes
Ep. 12 - Power BI, Data Viz, and Solving the Right Problem
T. from Data Rocks talks about how data viz is a tiny subset of information design. The key is to focus less on just charts, but more about how the data is communicated and received. We talk about how what the user does with it separates a pile...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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30:17
Ep. 11 - Data Science, Career Paths, Learning Fabric
In this episode, Steph Locke covers a wild career from data science consultant to startup owner to Microsoft manager. We talk about what’s required to work in data science. We also talk about the interaction of large language models and coding....
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38:39
Ep. 10: Fabric and Instructional Design
In this episode with Ellen Burns-Johnson, we talk about when we worked on a cloud game for Azure Synapse, ADF, Power BI. A big lesson learned from that is a big challenge today for Fabric is getting different teams and personas to communicate w...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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37:34
Ep. 9 - Fabric in Government
In this Episode Els Van Vessem talks about the challenges of implementing Fabric in the government. In it they talk about doing proof of concepts with Fabric and the limitations when your data is confidential, protected and on-premises. Data so...
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Episode 9
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35:08
Ep 8. CI/CD in Fabric
Apologies for the audio; I stupidly forgot to double check my mic this episode.In this episode, Erin Dempster gives us an outside view of fabric focused on CI/CD. We talk about both deployment pipelines and devops pipelines and ho...
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Episode 8
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29:33
Ep. 7 - Semantic Link and Semantic Link Labs
In this episode, Stephanie Bruno talks about semantic link and semantic link labs, which allow you to better manage your Power BI resources with Fabric notebooks. Semantic allows you to query and work directly with your semantic model. Semantic...
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28:53
Ep 6. Scouting out Fabric
In this episode, Krystina Mishra talks about being an accidental Fabric admin. She talks about the challenges of being part of a centralized IT team that operational and business teams. She talks about the challenges of how everything with Dyna...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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35:49
Ep. 5 - Realtime Intelligence
In this Episode, Frank Geisler explains Realtime Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric. We learn how RTI is its own thing in Fabric and is not directly backed by Parquet like a Lakehouse is. We also dig into the distinction between real-time analyti...
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Episode 5
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33:30
Ep 4. Fabric Lakehouse versus Warehouse
In this episode, Ginger Grant talks about the differences between warehouse and lakehouses in Fabric. We talk about how Warehouses make more sense if you are doing a lot of ad-hoc querying. In most other cases, Lakehouse will be easier and fewe...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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31:47
Ep 3. Extracting Data from Legacy Systems
In this episode, Kellyn Gorman talks about the challenges of getting data out of legacy systems (i.e. relational data bases) into Fabric. She explains that whoever hosts the data wins. She talks about often content talks about the golden path o...
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Episode 3
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35:38
Ep. 2 Medallion Architecture with Cathrine Wilhelmsen
Cathrine explains how there isn't a single solution for architecting your data lake with Microsoft Fabric. We walk through all the different moving pieces of getting started with Fabric and lakehouses. Catherine touches on some different ways o...
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Episode 2
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35:25
Ep 1. Data Movement with Kristyna Ferris
In this Episode, I interview Kristyna Ferris about the different types of data Movement in Microsoft Fabric. Specifically, we talk about gen 2 dataflows, data pipelines, and Spark notebooks. We see how you start simple and work your way up. Kri...
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Episode 1
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