Data engineering, Microsoft Fabric, and modern data platform architecture.
A decade of the declarative shift across the ELT stack — what it means in practice, how it played out historically, why every major platform converged on the same answer, and how to think about moving forward.
Read article →Connectors, limits, cost model, and the architectural questions that determine whether Fabric mirroring fits your use case. Includes a full capability matrix across all ten connectors.
Read article →An honest assessment of Microsoft Fabric Private Links for enterprise deployments — what the limitations actually are, why most organisations land on Conditional Access instead, and when Private Links do make sense.
Read article →The definitive guide to Delta table maintenance in Microsoft Fabric — what the documentation says, where to find it, and what your notebooks should actually look like in 2026. Covers V-Order defaults, Auto-Compaction, Adaptive Target File Size, Fast Optimize, Liquid Clustering, and Deletion Vectors.
Read article →My journey from Level 1 (Code Completion) to Level 2 (Human-Directed Local Agents), using my portfolio website as the guinea pig. This post shares what I learned about repository-centric AI development, the benefits of full context, and how I'm keen to see these capabilities translate to professional work.
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