Insights & Updates
The latest thinking on Data Strategy, AI Engineering, and Modern Analytics architectures.
The Rise of Agentic AI in Data Engineering
Why traditional ETL pipelines are being replaced by autonomous agents that heal themselves.
RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Making the Right Choice
When to inject context and when to retrain the model. A strategic guide for CTOs.
Forcing a Metadata Sync in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse
Having written before about the frustrations around records arriving late in the Fabric Lakehouse, I revisited the code today and discovered Microsoft's official REST API solution.
Delta Live Tables in Databricks… meet Materialized Lakehouse Views in Microsoft Fabric
If you've built Delta Live Tables pipelines in Databricks, the newly released Materialized Lakehouse Views in Microsoft Fabric will feel familiar. Here's how they compare.
Where are you on your Data Maturity Journey?
And where do you think your competitors are on their journey? If you are lucky, you may have an idea. But many companies simply have no idea how they compare.
Is CI/CD for Fabric finally completely there?
For years, data engineers and BI developers have been asking: when will Microsoft Fabric have proper CI/CD pipelines? The answer: it's close enough now.
From BI to HI to AI - Why Human Intelligence is the Real Driver of Smart Business
Over the past decade, Business Intelligence (BI) transformed how we see our data. Now, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming what we can predict. But there's a missing link: Human Intelligence (HI).
The Field-Level Lineage Gap in Microsoft Fabric (And How We're Closing It)
Someone asks where a number in the report actually comes from, and tracing it requires navigating six notebooks, three warehouse views, and a semantic model. Here's how we're solving that.