2 posts tagged with "Data Architecture"

Fresh gold tables are useless if the semantic model still points at yesterday, or if refresh burns an hour on a fact you could have incrementalized. Refresh is an architecture problem: orchestration, identity, and storage mode. Treat it as a portal checkbox and you invent a second process nobody can explain.

Figure 1. Direct Lake connects the semantic model to Delta in OneLake. Source: Microsoft Learn: Direct Lake overview.

Medallion architecture asks where bronze, silver, and gold live. In Fabric you can answer with many lakehouses or with schemas inside one lakehouse.

That choice leaks into shortcuts, SQL endpoints, notebooks, CI/CD, and how painful renames become later. It is not a folder preference. It is a topology decision.

Figure 1. Lakehouse creation in Microsoft Fabric. Source: Microsoft Learn: lakehouse schemas.