On May '23 data professionals from all around the globe felt like a kid on Christmas day eager to unbox the new toy: Microsoft Fabric.

The new kid of the block generated a lot of reactions on the internet, and Fabric became the only topic to speak of.

Anyway, being a consultant obliges not to be overwhelmed by the hype and to study a product carefully in order to tailor solution on customer needs.
Moreover Fabric is not a tool it's an entire ecosystem.

Studying Fabric for more than one year, since private preview, I had the possibility to see aspects that I truly love (the concept of "The Great Unifier", Direct Lake, Shortcuts and more), but I also found things that I don't like and should be improved IMHO (few artifacts supported by CI/CD, different behaviors on Delta tables according to the workload, busting and smoothing like a black box and more).

In this session I'll try to show you many different aspects that I loved and I hated explaining pros and cons and how I would apply them in a real world scenario.

I won't expect participants to find answers in this session, I expect them to find the right questions :-).