Practical articles for engineers working with Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Spark, and modern data and DevOps platforms.
Link to Fabric has two cost components: the Delta replica held in Dataverse database capacity, and the Fabric capacity that consumes it. This covers both, with measured replica-to-source size ratios from a D365 F&O sandbox, current per-GB and per-SKU rates, and the levers that reduce consumption.
The Delta Lake (Parquet) export option in Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse is deprecated: closed to new customers from October 2026 and removed in December 2027. This covers the exact scope of the deprecation, what remains supported, and how to choose between Synapse Link CSV output and Link to Microsoft Fabric.
MCP gives DevOps and platform teams a standard way to connect AI agents to GitHub, Kubernetes, cloud APIs, and observability systems without building brittle one-off integrations.
In Microsoft Fabric, the role that lets a developer build also bypasses OneLake security. Here are 3 patterns to isolate developer data access by domain — and which one actually holds.
A Data Pipeline references a connection, not a string — and that connection has a different ID in every workspace. Here's how the Connection Reference variable type swaps it per environment.
Deterministic hash surrogate keys or IDENTITY columns for your dimensions? A practitioner's pros and cons across load order, idempotency, join cost, and reprocessing.
Variable Libraries plus fabric-cicd's environment parameter give you a versioned, typed way to swap Key Vault names, storage accounts, and other per-environment constants automatically.
Copy pipeline via Virtual Network Data Gateway failing with LakehouseOperationFailed / InternalServerError at the _delta_log commit step? The fix is a single Azure subnet configuration change.