I am Andrzej Strzała (aka Andrew Arrow), data technology enthusiast passionate about crafting innovative data solutions that drive business transformation. With over a decade of experience in designing and implementing robust data architectures, I specialize in leveraging modern tools like Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and Power BI to deliver insights that empower decision-making.
In the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem a well-optimized semantic model is no longer just ‘nice to have’ it is a necessity for staying within the limits imposed by selected Fabric Capacity (you can find these limits here). Furthermore, if your model is poorly designed, bloated with unnecessary data, or contains inefficient DAX measures written by […]
If you design architectures for Microsoft Fabric like me, you’ve likely run into a frustrating roadblock, the lack of up-to-date icons in the official Microsoft repository. Even if you try to extract them directly from https://app.fabric.microsoft.com using any browser extensions, you’re usually met with a massive sheet that looks like this: While it looks great, it’s […]
If you’re using Pay-As-You-Go pricing model for development or you don’t need heavy overnight processing, you can pause Fabric capacity to stop billing. You can do it manually in the Azure portal or automate it with the services below: In the following article, I will focus on a free and very easy-to-configure approach using […]
Microsoft Fabric runs on a Capacity-based model. You purchase one (or more) Fabric capacities for your tenant(s) through the Azure portal, and that instantly unlocks all the Fabric features: Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Science, Fabric SQL Database, Real-Time Analytics, Power BI, Copilot, and storage in OneLake. The cost of Capacity depends […]