Now I’m going to do something scary and try to explain some things. I tried to pay attention during the precon and had the pleasure of talking with Ljubica Vujovic Boskovic on the capacity usage. She, very patiently, helped me out where my mind completely lost all track. Her explanations were great, any errors are all mine and I will correct this blogpost if there are mistakes. If you want to know more, you can also read this blog by Chris Novak who digs a bit deeper into smoothing and bursting.
So let me give you a very quick and simple introduction into the capacity challenges we’re going to face.
Read on for an overview of how Microsoft Fabric capacity planning works and one concern with this style of “one capacity to rule them all.”