Data Engineering Foundations in Microsoft Fabric

🎯 The Problem: You have a shiny new Fabric capacity, but where do you even start? Lakehouse? Warehouse? Dataflows? The Microsoft documentation is 500+ pages, and every blog post assumes you already know the basics.

💡 This Evening: In 90 minutes, we’ll show you the 4 essential building blocks of data engineering in Fabric - with live demos and the design decisions Microsoft made (and why they matter for YOUR architecture).

⏱️ Save yourself: 2-3 weeks of trial and error. We’ve compressed 4 weeks of Fabric Friday content into one power session.

What you’ll learn

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• 🏠 Lakehouse Architecture – Delta Lake, Medallion Pattern, and WHY the SQL endpoint is read-only by design
• 🔗 OneLake Shortcuts – Multi-cloud data access without copying, and WHY internal vs external shortcuts differ
• 📓 Fabric Notebooks – Code-first data engineering, and WHY %%python vs %%pyspark matters for performance
• 🔄 Dataflow Gen2 – Power Query at enterprise scale, and WHY staging is the secret weapon

Agenda

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Who should attend

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Data Engineers, BI Developers, Solution Architects – anyone starting their Microsoft Fabric journey or looking to solidify their foundations.

🔗 Explore the Elements

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Deep-dive into each element on the Fabric Periodic Table:

• 🏠 Lakehouse
• 🔗 Shortcut
• 📓 Notebook
• 🔄 Dataflow Gen2

Part of the monthly Fabric Meetup Series by The Trusted Advisor.