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7 articles on fabric.
Manufacturing Data Foundation: A Blueprint
Plant floor, ERP, quality, and maintenance data live in four silos that never join. Here's the manufacturing data foundation architecture that fixes it.
Watermark Bugs in Fabric Incremental Loads
A watermark incremental load in Microsoft Fabric silently duplicated 3 months of Gold-layer data. The fix: idempotent MERGE plus a row-count assertion.
Medallion Architecture: 5 Failure Modes
Most bronze/silver/gold lakehouse builds repeat the same five mistakes. A practitioner's breakdown of medallion architecture failure modes — and the fixes.
Fabric OneLake Shortcuts vs ADLS Mounts
When OneLake shortcuts beat ADLS Gen2 mounts in Microsoft Fabric, when they silently break, and the decision matrix we use on every migration.
Microsoft Fabric vs Databricks, Honestly
A practitioner's comparison of Fabric and Databricks across real enterprise workloads — with cost benchmarks and where each genuinely wins.
Synapse to Fabric: 4 Silent Breakages
Four Synapse-to-Fabric migration gotchas that pass code review but break production: identity columns, distribution DDL, OPENROWSET, F-SKU throttling.
Why Your AI Pilot Stalls at 80%
Most enterprise AI pilots hit 80% accuracy in a demo and never reach production. Here's the data-stage failure pattern behind it — and a concrete path to ship.