Capacities, Workspaces, Domains, DevOps & more!

Immerse yourself in the intricacies of Microsoft Fabric with a specialized training day tailored entirely to Data Engineers. While Thursday, February 6th, offered a glimpse into various Fabric topics, our upcoming training day on Friday, February 7th is your opportunity to delve deeper into the platform.

Your trainers are experts, who have been working in the subject area for years, and who will guide you through unlocking the full potential of Fabric through the lens of a Data Engineer. They will focus on the practical aspects, based on their experience of collaborating with customers worldwide.

We will cover core topics, including:

Administering Fabric: The breadth of Fabric Experiences means there is a huge amount of platform configuration we could do beyond the defaults. The admin portal requires a map just to navigate the array of switches and levers. Let’s explore the impact of these together.

Capacity Management: Provisioning the right amount of compute for our workloads is tricky, especially when that compute can burst beyond the initial sizing. Next, we need to get the business to sign off on those theoretical costs. Lastly, we need to figure out how to allocate this to users, workspaces, analytics solutions and environments. Is one capacity enough. Let’s address these points together to arrive at some rational/pragmatic values.

Workspace Organisation and Configuration: Preventing environment spaul and structure for business users less familiar with development practices, including the assignment of compute, storage and the ability to build out Fabric items across the experiences.

Item Source Control, Environments and Deployment: Understanding how to support continuous integration and deliver across Fabric Workspaces, with alignment to a medallion taxonomy where applicable. Covering different approaches to change management.

Structuring Domains and Sub-domains: Considering data mesh principles, how should we apply this thinking to the technical capabilities of Microsoft Fabric, including the organisation/manifestation of our business data products.

Data Governance Practices: Once an analytics solution has been built in Fabric how do you allow business users to explore and interact with the outputs. Data cataloguing, lineage and item endorsement needs to be considered alongside culture and adoption for it to truly fly.