Nine chapters of my data architecture book are available
As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering Data...
2023-09-01
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Serving layers with a data lake
Data lakes typically have three layers: raw, cleaned, and presentation (also called bronze, silver, and gold if using the medallion architecture popularized by Databricks). I talk about this is...
2023-08-28 (first published: 2023-08-09)
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Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouse vs Warehouse video
Since Microsoft Fabric became available, I blogged about it and have an introduction video on Fabric that you can view here. I wanted to follow up with a short 30-minute video...
2023-08-04 (first published: 2023-07-18)
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Three more chapters of my data architecture book are available!
As I have mentioned in a prior blog post, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering...
2023-07-14 (first published: 2023-06-28)
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Microsoft Fabric introduction video
I blogged about Microsoft Fabric a few weeks ago, and wanted to follow up with an introduction video that covers the basics so hopefully you will understand the major...
2023-07-05 (first published: 2023-06-19)
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Build announcement: Microsoft Fabric
The HUGE announcement at Microsoft Build yesterday was Microsoft Fabric (see Introducing Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI), now available in public preview. I have been...
2023-06-12 (first published: 2023-05-24)
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The first two chapters of my book are available!
As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering Data...
2023-05-15 (first published: 2023-05-03)
581 reads
Data Marketplace
I question I have been getting from customers lately is about a data marketplace. What is it, and what products can I use to build it? A data marketplace,...
2023-04-24 (first published: 2023-04-10)
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Using a data lakehouse
As I mentioned in my Data Mesh, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse presentation, the data lakehouse architecture, where you use a data lake with delta lake as a software layer...
2023-03-09
25 reads
New Microsoft Purview features
Microsoft Purview, formally called Azure Purview (see Azure Purview is generally available) has recently released a number of new cool features. I wanted to call out a few of...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-09)
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