Attention Span and Modern Data Platforms
Andy What Happened To My Video Games?! I knew I'd be able to shoehorn video game topics into my blogs at some point, and this seems pretty relevant. You see, back…
Dopamine Part 3
The Third Act Right then, it's the third act in the movie called Lack of Concentration & Focus: Revenge of the Redirected Dopamine (come on Netflix, I'm waiting for the…
Dopamine Part 2
Trigger warning: This blog post contains a small mention of general mental health conditions, but is as the title suggests mostly focused on attention span and a chemical/hormone called dopamine.…
Dopamine
What's This All About Then? I wrote a blog just after the new year about my experiences with 2025. I talked about work, about health and fitness, and the Microsoft…
2025
I wondered about the title to this blog post, I thought of various options but to me simply putting "2025" is enough...I don’t tend to write personal blogs, I’ve defined…
Fabric Architecture: Azure Tenants
Overview Our Fabric Architecture journey starts with Azure Tenants (the kick-off blog in this series is here with a few jumping-off links to get started with thinking about Fabric Architecture).…
Microsoft Fabric Architecture
Overview Whoa! That's quite a headline... What, we're going to deal with the whole of Microsoft Fabric Architecture in a single blog post! No I'm not, that would be a…
Beta Deployment Framework for Materialized Lake Views in Fabric
Overview I like declarative frameworks and I find great value in services/tools like Dbt and Databricks Delta Live Tables (sorry, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines) where I don't really want to be…
Deploying Case Insensitive Warehouse using Deployment Pipelines
Overview I wrote a blog post last year on Fabric Warehouses and the new Case Insensitive collation, you can read more here. One of the issues that Case Insensitive Warehouses…
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery in Fabric
Overview I've been turning my attention to disaster recovery processes in Microsoft Fabric recently, to understand what can be done in the event of the unthinkable happening...I'll likely dive deeper…