Craig Porteous

Microsoft Fabric is designed to be simple and easy to use but creating your Fabric items manually is no fun (and prone to human error). Automation is the future and the Fabric APIs are your tools. It's easy to see from the regular updates on the Fabric blog that Microsoft have been investing heavily in the API capabilities across Fabric. So what's all the fuss about and how can you take advantage of all of these background developments? Unlock the power of automation with Fabric's extensive array of API endpoints. In this session we'll explore the full suite of API capabilities in Fabric, how to get started using them, and run through a real world scenario using the API. We'll have you provisioning architectures and managing your estate in no time.

Fabric is Microsoft's unified software as a service data platform, built around a Data Lakehouse architecture. In this session I'll share an array of data Lakehouse architecture patterns, and demonstrate how you can build a full Data Lakehouse platform without ever touching an Azure resource.

Come and see to some of our amazing speakers on one of these topics: 1. SQL and Databases: 2. Microsoft Fabric and Related Technologies: 3. Power BI and Data Visualization: 4. Azure and Cloud Technologies:

This session session aims to give you that context. We'll look at how spark-based engines work and how we can use them within Synapse Analytics. We'll dig into Delta, the underlying file format that enables the Lakehouse, and take a tour of how the Synapse compute engines interact with it. Finally, we'll draw out our whole Lakehouse architecture

In this session I'll guide you from through a secure reference architecture with Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, and Azure Synapse, working together as a secure, fully productionised platform. Each has their own idiosyncrasies, but this session will teach you the options available and the pitfalls to avoid.

In this session I'll cover what the Data Lakehouse architecture is, where it fits against existing architectures like a data warehouse, and why you should build one. We'll also cover the underlying technology options to arm you with all of the information you need to plan your next data platform.

Ben and Rob have found some wonderful folk to actually do the important parts of the community keynote. on the theme of How to be a nonpassive member of the data community

Providing a business with an organized and propagated data catalogue is essential with ever growing demands and questions about your data platform. How are your data assets organised and how can you track lineage? In this session we will demonstrate how data landscaping can be achieved with Azure Purview and how business terminology and ownership can be assigned throughout.

PowerShell loves Power BI. In this session we will take a look at how to manage your datasets, security, monitor licensing and more, all through the ultimate administration interface: PowerShell!