Nikola Ilic presses the Easy button:
For the longest time, building a medallion architecture in Microsoft Fabric meant stitching together a small orchestra of moving parts: notebooks for the transformations, pipelines for orchestration, schedules for refresh, custom code for data quality checks, and the Monitor Hub for keeping an eye on whether anything actually worked. Every layer worked – until something didn’t, and then you had to figure out which layer broke, why, and which downstream layers got affected along the way.
If you’ve ever tried to debug a silver layer that didn’t update because the bronze notebook failed three hours ago, you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Then, at FabCon Atlanta in March 2026, materialized lake views (MLVs) went generally available. And the story they’re telling is simple: what if your entire medallion pipeline could be a few SELECT statements?
Let me walk you through the whole thing – what they are, how they work, what changed between preview and GA, and where they fit (and where they don’t) in your architecture.
Read on for that walkthrough.