Filip Popović
Microsoft, Senior Product Manager
Belgrade, Serbia
Filip Popović is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft and part of the Fabric Product Group, focusing on SQL performance. Before joining Microsoft in 2019, he spent over ten years in the software and financial services industry, delivering business analytics solutions using the Microsoft technology stack.
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Fabric Data Warehouse: An In-Depth Exploration
Join us for a comprehensive day-long session focused on the essentials of data architecture using Fabric DW. This session is designed to enhance your understanding and skills in data management. Here’s what we’ll cover:
1) Fabric DW Overview: Spend the day gaining valuable insights into Fabric DW, from its foundational concepts to practical execution. Learn about the key features and benefits of this powerful tool.
2) End-to-End Solutions with Fabric: Discover how Fabric facilitates seamless integration and efficient orchestration through case studies and examples of successful implementations.
3) Implementing Data Warehouses with Fabric: Get hands-on experience and learn effective strategies for integrating Fabric into your data warehouse environment. This session is ideal for those ready to apply practical knowledge.
4) Deep Dive into Fabric: Examine the detailed aspects of Fabric, including its pipeline structures, scalability solutions, and performance optimization techniques. This part of the session is like navigating through the complexities of data processing.
Please bring your laptop to participate in our interactive labs.
Ask me Anything
AMA session where Justyna Lucznik and friends open's the floor to any questions from the audience.
Fabric Espresso: Lungo Edition!
Fabric Espresso team is coming to your favorite conference with freshly brewed pot of content!
Join us in this hour-long session to learn how to unlock the power of Synapse SQL pools and boost your data warehouse and data lake performance.
We will cover everything you need to know to delight your business users by making serverless SQL pool fly! From basics to squeezing the very last bit of performance out of it.
If you are more into data warehouses, don't worry, we have you covered as well! We will cover best strategy for ingestion and consumption of your data so you can start working on your data warehouse quickly and with confidence.
Every tip and trick we share is proven in real world customer scenarios.
And all of this comes in easy to consume sips!
Fabric Espresso Lungo
Fabric Espresso team is coming to your favorite conference with freshly brewed pot of content!
Join us in this hour-long session to learn how to unlock the power of Microsoft Fabric and make your analytics efforts a breeze.
We will cover all the Fabric components and everything you need to know to delight your business users in no time! And you will know how to squeeze the best performance out of Fabric!
Regardless of whether you are into lakehouses or warehouses, we got you covered. Even better, why not both! We will cover best strategy for ingestion and consumption of your data so you can start working on your analytic solution quickly and with confidence.
Every tip and trick we share is proven in real world customer scenarios.
And all of this comes in easy to consume sips!
Fabric DW in an hour
Dive deep with us as we explore Fabric DW, the pioneering data warehouse that breaks free from proprietary storage formats, seamlessly interacting with data in its native data lake form. In this session, we'll unpack the architecture that enables Fabric DW to deliver top-notch performance directly from the data lake. And of course, we'll be showcasing the latest features through live demonstrations.
Azure Synapse SQL Pools : Zero to Hero
Are you ready to unlock the massive power of Synapse SQL Pools? Do you want to see some of the features that are coming and what impact they will have on your workloads?
Join us to learn and apply the best strategy when it comes to ingesting and consuming your data with Azure Synapse!
The day will be packed with tips and tricks for your Data Warehouse from two folks who work on the largest deployments in the world!
In the morning we will ease into Synapse and explaining all key features, from there on we will deep dive into the Polaris engine and how it changes the game.
The focus of the morning will be around Dedicated SQL pools and how to get the best performance out of it. We will look at loading patterns and ways to optimize these, table distribution issues, security features, statistics handling, workload management, streaming data and indexing strategies!
After lunch we handle the other side of our Synapse Pool environment: Serverless. We will explain how it works, and how to optimize the reading patterns. We will touch upon delta lake and how it fits in, parquet file structure, flat file differences, security features, partitioning strategies, optimized data loading with Spark and many more.
After this day you will be able to tackle any issues you face to build a performant, cost efficient and dynamic data warehouse with Azure Synapse SQL Pools.
Ask them Anything: Microsoft Fabric, Power BI
Join us for a discussion and ask-us-anything round with some members of the Fabric product team, Fabric CAT (Customer Advisory Team).
Prepare your sessions around the topic of analytics in the Microsoft space..
Synapse Q&A with PG
SQLBits' has brought members of the Azure Synapse Program Group to Wales to ask YOUR questions. Bring your questions for: Dedicated SQL Pools, Serverless SQL Pools, Spark Pools, Pipelines, Kusto and everything else Synapse related.
It could be about a feature, a migration you are going through or just to say you like our socks.
Synapse Espresso Lungo
Filip and Stefan brew a fresh pot of Synapse Espresso at dataMinds Connect. They'll make sure to serve you some piping hot insights on Synapse Serverless SQL Pools, to help you get the most out of it.
Lakehouse in a day
Are you looking into the Lakehouse architecture and want to know where to start? Want to get hands-on experience with all the different Azure components you can use to achieve this?
Well then, we have a treat for you!
During this full day training session, you will build a new green field Lakehouse under the support of experts in the field!
We will start of the day with a general introduction to the Lakehouse concept and give a brief overview of all the components that you can use.
After that it is up to you to decide what you want to build and how you are going to build it based on the requirements you received!
During the exercises we will be having some OLTP sources you will need to import in a dynamic and incremental way, guided by the best practices the coaches provide you. This will tackle the bronze layer and all the things you need to know about it.
After getting that data in your bronze layer, you will build out the silver layer based on a few real requirements! During this part, you will learn how to incrementally load data to your silver layer and make sure your cleansing is done right and in an effective and dynamic way!
Of course, there is no Lakehouse without a gold layer which serves the business needs of your company. Together with us, we will build out a robust gold layer focused on performance & business needs!
If you do not know where to start, don’t worry, during this day we will also be providing you with loads of sample scripts based on the best practices seen at most customers!
The technologies that will be used during this training day are Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Power BI, Serverless SQL Pools, Azure Data Lake, Spark Notebooks, Synapse Integrate Pipelines & Azure Data Factory!
Fabric Espresso Lungo
Fabric Espresso team is coming to your favorite conference with freshly brewed pot of content!
Join us in this hour-long session to learn how to unlock the power of Microsoft Fabric and make your analytics efforts a breeze.
We will cover all the Fabric components and everything you need to know to delight your business users in no time! And you will know how to squeeze the best performance out of Fabric!
Regardless of whether you are into lakehouses or warehouses, we got you covered. Even better, why not both! We will cover best strategy for ingestion and consumption of your data so you can start working on your analytic solution quickly and with confidence.
Every tip and trick we share is proven in real world customer scenarios.
And all of this comes in easy to consume sips!
Azure Synapse SQL Pools Unleashed!
Are you ready to unlock the massive power of Synapse SQL Pools? Do you want to see some of the features that are coming and what impact they will have on your workloads?
Join us to learn and apply the best strategy when it comes to ingesting and consuming your data with Azure Synapse! The day will be packed with tips and tricks for your Data Warehouse from two folks who work on the largest deployments in the world!
In the morning we will ease into Synapse and explaining all key features, from there on we will deep dive into the Polaris engine and how it changes the game. Focus of the morning will be around Dedicated SQL pools and how to get the best performance out of it. We will look at loading patterns and ways to optimize these, table distribution issues, security features, statistics handling, workload management, streaming data and indexing strategies!
After lunch we handle the other side of our Synapse Pool environment: Serverless. We will explain how it works, and how to optimize the reading patterns. We will touch upon delta lake and how it fits in, parquet file structure, flat file differences, security features, partitioning strategies, optimized data loading with Spark and many more.
After this day you will be able to tackle any issues you face to build a performant, cost efficient and dynamic data warehouse with Azure Synapse SQL Pools.
Analyze Azure Data using serverless Synapse SQL pool
Azure Synapse Analytics is our comprehensive new analytics service in Azure that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics with unified experience. Within Azure Synapse, serverless SQL pool is a new scale-out, distributed query processing capability, with a T-SQL interface and a pay-per-query consumption model. Serverless SQL pool is intended for exploration of the data lake, data transformation at scale, and data virtualization. It is fully serverless, so there is no infrastructure or clusters to manage. Join us to learn about future of big data analytics in the Azure cloud.
Analytics superhero in an hour with Microsoft Fabric
Join us for an immersive hour-long session as we delve into the realm of Microsoft Fabric and discover how it can revolutionize your analytics workflow. In this comprehensive workshop, we will explore the various components of Microsoft Fabric, equipping you with the knowledge to effortlessly delight your business users.
Whether you're navigating the world of data lakehouses or warehouses, this session has got you covered. We'll unveil the best strategies for data ingestion and consumption, ensuring you can kickstart your analytics solution with confidence and efficiency.
Expect a treasure trove of tips and tricks that have been proven in real-world customer scenarios. From optimizing performance to maximizing the potential of Microsoft Fabric, every sip of information will leave you empowered to tackle complex analytics challenges head-on.
So, join us in this enlightening session, and unlock the true potential of Microsoft Fabric to streamline your analytics efforts. Prepare for an engaging experience that will empower you to transform raw data into valuable insights like never before!
Analytics superhero in a day with Microsoft Fabric
Are you ready to become analytics superhero?
Hesitate no more! Microsoft Fabric is out and building analytics solution cannot get any easier! If you believe that the best way to learn is to learn by example, join us!
We will build a new green field analytical solution using new all-in-one Microsoft Fabric that covers everything from data movement to data science, Real-Time Analytics, and business intelligence. You will enjoy a highly integrated, end-to-end, and easy-to-use product that is designed to simplify your analytics needs.
We will start off the day with an overview of Microsoft Fabric, set up the environment and explain the scenario for the day.
There is no use of analytics solution if there is no data. So, we will show how data is stored in Fabric, how you can integrate existing data, or ingest data from different sources. Here we will create landing zone and integrate existing data without making another copy!
Once data is in Microsoft Fabric OneLake, we will process it efficiently while demonstrating best practices. Data engineers are used to Spark so it will be our tool of choice in creating different layers while tackling all the things you need to know. During this part, you will learn how to incrementally load data and make sure your cleansing is done right and in an effective and dynamic way! Rest assured, SQL folks are not forgotten! We will show how you can access the same data using SQL!
Of course, there is no using loading data without a serving layer for your business needs. We will show you how you can use Lakehouse & Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric focusing on performance!
Finally, we will show you how to build Power BI report using new consumption method reading data directly from the lake, called DirectLake, skipping data engines.
If you do not know where to start, don’t worry, during this day we will explain every step and how Fabric helps you get the job done. Also, we will share the best practices seen at most customers!
After this day you will have a clear understanding of how Fabric works and what components you must use for you own top notch analytical solution!
Fabric is brand new, so instead of throwing terminology here, we are inviting you to join us and become the analytics superhero!
Data Warehouse Performance Best Practices
Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse makes no compromise when it comes to the performance of your workloads! We invite you to learn about performance best practices and explore the inner workings and advanced features that empower Microsoft Fabric to deliver outstanding performance across a diverse range of workloads.
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