Category: Microsoft Fabric

Matt Gordon gives us the lowdown:

At their Microsoft Build conference in May 2023, Microsoft announced the company’s new unified analytics solution, Microsoft Fabric. As with any major product launch from a major cloud provider, a tremendous amount of noise and smoke accompanied the debut.

After all, when a company the size of Microsoft invests significantly in a product, you can be assured that the marketing blitz will be significant, too – and that was certainly the case with Fabric. The blitz will ramp up even further now that Microsoft announced at Microsoft Ignite that Fabric is already generally available (GA).

Behind that noise and smoke, though, all many of our customers and partners want to know is: Should I care? And if so, why? Let’s dive into this topic together from the perspective of a few key personas found at many companies.

Read on for Matt’s thoughts on the topic.

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Nikola Ilic ramps up quickly:

Let’s try to break down these concepts and explain them as simple as possible:

Bursting lets you use more power than you purchased (within the specific timeframe)! Smoothing takes care that this power is “under control” within that same timeframe. Easy, right:)? I know, I know, so let’s break this further down…

Read on for some of the nuance behind this.

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Nikola Ilic puts on the green eyeshades:

Microsoft Fabric is finally generally available! Yaaaay! Now, when the dust settles and the initial allure goes away, the most obvious question that one might ask is – how much will Fabric cost me?

Because, yes, it’s cool to have a unified analytics solution and all Fabric’s “weapons” at your disposal, but at the end of the day, looking at the wallet is what matters most:)

So, let’s try to break down all the available options, plus explain some of the concepts that may affect your Fabric workloads in terms of pricing. 

Read on to see what the major considerations are and how much you’ll shell out to use Fabric for real.

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Ben Jarvis announces the news:

On the 15th November Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Fabric. Having seen Microsoft Fabric develop through our involvement in the private and public preview this is a really exciting announcement and all of us at Adatis are looking forward to seeing how it will fit into the solutions we are deploying to customers. 

It makes sense to announce going GA at Ignite, though I don’t think Fabric is ready for prime time yet. There are still so many gaps in the product, and even though many items are on the roadmap, I wonder if Fabric will get a bad reputation from going GA too early. My analogy is Cyberpunk 2077: when the game came out, it was a buggy mess. Most of the bugs have been fixed now, a couple of years later, but for many people, their everlasting impression of the game is how buggy it was.

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Wolfgang Strasser has a pair of links:

As Microsoft Fabric is a brand-new technology (and still in preview – as of 2023-11-09), there are hardly any best practices published and available.
But today, I found some great catches in the Fabric documentation – two decision guides

Click through for more details on those two guides.

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Soheil Bakhshi lays out the options:

Microsoft Fabric is a SaaS platform that allows users to get, create, share, and visualise data using a wide set of tools. It provides a unified solution for all our data and analytics workloads, from data ingestion and transformation to data engineering, data science, data warehouse, real-time analytics, and data visualisation. In a previous blog post, I explained the basics of the Microsoft Fabric data platform. In a separate blog post, I explained some Microsoft Fabric terminologies and personas where I explained what Tenant and Capacities are.

In this blog post, we will explore the different types of Fabric capacities, how they affect the performance and cost of our Fabric projects, and how you can control the capacity costs by pausing the capacity in Azure when it is not in use.

Click through for more information. The costs are in New Zealand Dollars, so translate as needed.

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