Gerhard Brueckl
Data Architect
Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel, Austria
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Gerhard has been working with the Microsoft Data Platform for over 20 years. From building traditional BI/DWH solution on the MSSQL server stack to designing and implementing whole data platforms hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Besides his affection to Microsoft technologies, he is also familiar with common open source technologies in that area like Hadoop, Spark and Delta Lakes. When not working on customer projects, Gerhard is an active member in the community around those topics and shares his knowledge in his blog or when speaking at conferences and meet-ups.
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Deep-Dive into Delta Lake
Delta Lake is becoming a defacto-standard for storing big amounts data for analytical purposes in a data lake. But what is behind it? How does it work under the hood? In this session you we will dive deep into the internals of Delta Lake by unpacking the transaction log and also highlight some common pitfalls when working with Delta Lake (and show how to avoid them).
Fabric meets Databricks
Microsoft Fabric and Databricks are the two major players when it comes to building data platforms on Microsoft Azure. Both have their very specific strengths and focus and there are also a lot of features that overlap. Sometimes it can be hard to chose the right tool to start your analytics journey with. In this session I will give you and quick overview of both technologies and quickly dive into the specific technical and non-technical nuances of each. The last part of the session will be about how the two platforms can play together and how to get the best out of both worlds.
Showcasing Fabric Studio
In this session I will give you an introduction to the Visual Studio Code extension "Fabric Studio" which allows you to manage your Fabric environment directly from within VSCode. Leveraging the Fabric REST APIs you can easily browse through Fabric items and run various tasks. For not so common API calls there is also the ability to user VSCode notebooks offering intelli-sense and auto-complete from all existing API calls. It further allows you to modify existing items like semantic models, notebooks, pipelines, etc. in the VSCode IDE and publish your changes back to the Fabric service. It also features a OneLake browser to inspect the output of your operations.
Showcasing Power BI Studio
In this session I will give you an introduction to the Visual Studio Code extension "Power BI Studio" which allows you to manage your Power BI environment directly from within VSCode. Leveraging the Power BI REST APIs you can easily navigate through your tenant and execute common actions like refreshing a dataset or monitoring refreshes from a nice UI without having to open your browser. For not so common API calls there is also the ability to user VSCode notebooks offering intelli-sense and auto-complete from all existing API calls.
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