For years, Data Engineering has been about building pipelines, managing transformations and keeping data flowing reliably. Tools evolved, platforms matured, but the core responsibility remained the same: engineers design, build, and maintain. That model is being challenged now. With the rapid evolution of Fabric, we are seeing the early signs of a shift from manual […]

The real problem: compute costs do not sleep Fabric’s pricing model is capacity based. That means compute is your biggest lever for cost control. Typical enterprise pattern looks like: Yet many teams keep the engineering capacity running 24/7 and so the obvious question teams ask is: if we pause a capacity, does access to the […]

Microsoft Fabric introduces a seamless way to bring your existing Azure SQL Database or SQL Server data into the unified Fabric platform through Mirrored SQL Databases. This capability enables realtime analytics and integration with Fabric services without the need for complex ETL pipelines or data duplication. What is a Mirrored SQL Database? A mirrored database […]