Writing on data engineering, Microsoft Fabric, dbt, and building reliable data platforms.
I just finished implementing Data Pipeline schedules in Microsoft Fabric, and I ran into enough friction that it warrants writing down. This article covers the problem, why the obvious workarounds don't work, and the fix I ended up building into my deployment pipeline.
I've been using Microsoft Fabric quite extensively for the past two years. In the beginning I was disappointed, to say the least. That was mainly due to the missing support for Infrastructure as Code.
Microsoft announced Fabric IQ at Ignite in November 2025, meaning the data community has had a few months to familiarize itself with it…
How data teams can use Power Platform for metadata management, data catalogs, and more
A few weeks back, I ran into one of those Power Apps walls that shouldn’t exist but does. I was building a Canvas App for a client. It was…
A little over a year ago, I wrote about my experience with Microsoft Fabric: The Good, The Bad & the Ugly. The verdict was mixed: great…
A few weeks back, I hit a frustrating problem while shipping a Fabric project. I set up Fabric Deployment Pipelines, Microsoft’s next-gen…
If you’ve worked on a data team, you may recognise this. A stakeholder pings you for a quick analysis. A dashboard suddenly breaks. A…