Design it – build it – run it! Welcome to a full-day journey through enterprise data engineering in Microsoft Fabric—where architecture meets real implementation.

This workshop will take you beyond isolated features and into the real-world design of an enterprise-grade data platform that Microsoft Fabric has evolved into. Throughout the workshop, we won’t focus on individual tools, but on building a cohesive architecture by connecting ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and monitoring into a unified analytics solution.

The workshop starts with conceptual basics - introducing the Medallion architecture and its implementation in Fabric, from bronze to silver to curated gold warehouse models. During this part of the workshop, we will define which artifacts belong to each part of the architecture, ensuring not only an understanding of how things work - but also why they are designed this way in an enterprise environment.

Next, we move into practical implementation patterns by demonstrating how to build metadata-driven pipelines and a supporting metadata database, transforming static pipelines into scalable, reusable ingestion engines.

And once our ingestion engine is up and running, it is time for the Fabric to shine with different data loading strategies into the warehouse. We are going to look at how notebooks and lakehouses bring flexibility, check the pipelines and warehouse for structured orchestration, and see how the newer approaches with Airflow and dbt fit this story. The goal of this is not to find one solution but to show when and why each approach is a good idea.

The last part of the workshop is about operations and monitoring. We will show how Fabric-native capabilities track the pipeline execution and overall system health, allowing you to make the whole solution production-ready.