FabCon Atlanta 2026: Proven Fabric Architecture Patterns

Proven Fabric Architecture Patterns to Minimize Refactoring

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Speaker: Matthias Falland | Microsoft Data Platform MVP
Track: Data Platform & Architecture | Level 300 | 60 minutes

Expensive refactoring from poor architecture is avoidable. This session shares architecture patterns from 20+ real-world implementations covering workspace topology, medallion layer strategies, and cross-workspace data sharing.

Download: Decision Framework

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Fabric Architecture Decision Framework (PDF) — A printable flowchart with 5 key questions to choose the right architecture pattern for your Fabric implementation.

Session Resources

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Official Documentation: Workspace & Deployment Patterns

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1. Microsoft Fabric deployment patterns
2. Microsoft Fabric concepts and licenses
3. Create and manage workspaces
4. Fabric domains
5. Best practices for planning and creating domains
6. OneLake catalog
7. Deployment pipelines in Fabric

Official Documentation: Medallion Architecture

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8. Implement medallion lakehouse architecture in Fabric
9. Lakehouse overview
10. Decision guide: Choose between Lakehouse and Warehouse
11. Better together: Lakehouse and Warehouse
12. Warehouse overview
13. Default Power BI semantic models
14. Delta Lake table optimization

Official Documentation: Shortcuts & Data Sharing

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15. OneLake shortcuts
16. Create a OneLake shortcut
17. OneLake data security overview
18. ADLS Gen2 shortcuts
19. Amazon S3 shortcuts
20. Google Cloud Storage shortcuts

Fabric Enterprise Guidance & Best Practices

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21. Fabric site reliability engineering model
22. Evaluate and optimize your Fabric capacity
23. Fabric administration overview
24. Capacity planning and deployment
25. Azure Well-Architected: Greenfield Lakehouse on Fabric

Security & Governance

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26. Row-Level Security in Fabric
27. OneSecurity overview
28. Governance overview
29. Sensitivity labels in Fabric

Microsoft Learn Training Modules

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30. Get started with Microsoft Fabric (Learning Path)
31. Implement a lakehouse with Microsoft Fabric (Learning Path)
32. Implement a data warehouse with Microsoft Fabric (Learning Path)
33. Introduction to end-to-end analytics using Microsoft Fabric

More from The Trusted Advisor

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• Fabric Periodic Table — Interactive visualization of all Fabric components
• Fabric Friday on YouTube — Weekly deep dives into Microsoft Fabric
• Microsoft Fabric Community — Official community forum
• LinkedIn: Matthias Falland — Connect and follow

Session presented at FabCon Atlanta 2026. All MS Learn links include MVP tracking code.