In one of my earlier roles, a major pharma client handed my team a non-negotiable requirement: they needed sub-second, real-time streaming for their global supply chain dashboard. We spent a huge amount of time engineering a masterpiece. We set up an event-driven architecture, orchestrated micro-batch streaming and spun up a hefty Databricks cluster that hummed […]

Microsoft introduced Rayfin at Build 2026, positioning it as a way to build and run application backends directly inside Microsoft Fabric. It clearly wants Fabric to be no longer just a data platform. With the introduction of Rayfin (currently in preview), Fabric is starting to evolve into an application platform. At its core, Rayfin is […]

When you first roll out the Fabric data agent, it usually feels like a big win. Suddenly, business users do not need to depend on SQL or data teams for every question. They just type what they want in plain English and get answers. Adoption tends to happen quickly, almost organically. Sales teams start exploring […]

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 […]