https://www.geekindata.com Field notes on Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Power Platform, and Microsoft Foundry: decisions, failure modes, and contracts that survive production. en https://www.geekindata.com/blog/12-poc-public-vs-mvp-private-agent-apps https://www.geekindata.com/blog/12-poc-public-vs-mvp-private-agent-apps Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to stage agent webapps from a public POC to a private MVP without pretending env files are a network design. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/44-fabric-workspace-naming-hygiene https://www.geekindata.com/blog/44-fabric-workspace-naming-hygiene Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Argue that inconsistent workspace display-name prefixes create operational tax and that a one-time rename with stable catalog names is cheaper than perpetual translation layers. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/20-env-isolation-azure-cli https://www.geekindata.com/blog/20-env-isolation-azure-cli Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Show how collapsing redundant env templates and treating Azure CLI subscriptions/resource groups as the real isolation boundary prevents POC/MVP config drift. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/39-native-ci-linters-language-gates https://www.geekindata.com/blog/39-native-ci-linters-language-gates Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Argue for native CI linters and language test gates so white-label and locale regressions fail the build before demos do. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/36-feature-toggles-agent-shells https://www.geekindata.com/blog/36-feature-toggles-agent-shells Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Replace hard-coded agent catalogs with product feature flags plus per-agent overlay rows for scope, starters, export prefixes, and access arrays. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/13-genie-readiness-is-a-modeling-problem https://www.geekindata.com/blog/13-genie-readiness-is-a-modeling-problem Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT What has to be true in naming, modeling, and catalog descriptions before conversational analytics tools like Genie produce trustworthy answers. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/27-bronze-only-cast-typing https://www.geekindata.com/blog/27-bronze-only-cast-typing Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Argue for typing published columns in bronze (or the earliest stable layer) and banning ritual CAST in silver and gold. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/5-app-access-vs-agent-access https://www.geekindata.com/blog/5-app-access-vs-agent-access Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why enterprise agent webapps need separate control planes for shell sign-in, agent catalog access, and knowledge corpus entitlements, and how Entra app roles on the API make that enforceable. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/14-canvas-apps-at-platform-scale https://www.geekindata.com/blog/14-canvas-apps-at-platform-scale Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to keep canvas apps maintainable at scale by following Microsoft reference guidance: fewer mega-screens, less chatty data access, more Dataverse-side work. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/10-legacy-to-lakehouse-semantic-parity https://www.geekindata.com/blog/10-legacy-to-lakehouse-semantic-parity Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why lakehouse migrations fail on NULL versus zero, float pennies, and type rebase settings, and how to treat parity as a contract. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/23-ai-import-ux-pattern https://www.geekindata.com/blog/23-ai-import-ux-pattern Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Generalize section-aware AI import so uncertain matches stay deselected by default and users must opt in to incomplete rows. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/26-column-level-mlv-validation https://www.geekindata.com/blog/26-column-level-mlv-validation Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Push migration checklists to per-column tables and type-aware aggregates so MLV cutovers catch semantic drift early. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/17-scd2-mlv-device-location-history https://www.geekindata.com/blog/17-scd2-mlv-device-location-history Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explain why location and classification history for measuring points should be SCD2 Materialized Lake Views before anyone builds devices as of reports. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/41-mlv-nee-fallback-truth https://www.geekindata.com/blog/41-mlv-nee-fallback-truth Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Teach teams to measure where MLV DAG time actually goes and fix only actionable native-execution engine fallbacks. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/11-fabric-cicd-blast-radius https://www.geekindata.com/blog/11-fabric-cicd-blast-radius Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why Fabric deployment tooling can republish unchanged notebooks and how to design for stable identities and smaller blast radius. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/9-semantic-refresh-and-direct-lake https://www.geekindata.com/blog/9-semantic-refresh-and-direct-lake Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to choose notebook, pipeline, or scheduled refresh for lakehouse semantics, and when Direct Lake beats a SQL endpoint for heavy facts. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/8-one-lakehouse-schemas-vs-many https://www.geekindata.com/blog/8-one-lakehouse-schemas-vs-many Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to choose between multiple Fabric lakehouses and a schema-enabled lakehouse for bronze, silver, and gold, including CI/CD and naming fallout. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/6-knowledge-rbac-for-enterprise-agents https://www.geekindata.com/blog/6-knowledge-rbac-for-enterprise-agents Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to design folder-scoped knowledge access for enterprise agents so chat, library browse, downloads, and citation PDFs share one entitlement model. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/40-fabric-monitor-runbooks https://www.geekindata.com/blog/40-fabric-monitor-runbooks Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Show why scattered Fabric monitor scripts should become one skill/runbook interface for humans and coding agents. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/25-mlv-layer-migration https://www.geekindata.com/blog/25-mlv-layer-migration Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Frame hundreds of T-SQL warehouse views moving to MLVs as a phased program with schema-enabled lakehouses, shortcut layouts, and POC gates before bulk conversion. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/30-bulk-ingest-without-oom https://www.geekindata.com/blog/30-bulk-ingest-without-oom Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explain batched parallel page ingest for large ledger entities so full reloads finish without driver OOM. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/22-agent-activity-traceability https://www.geekindata.com/blog/22-agent-activity-traceability Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Argue that activity timelines must reconcile Foundry traces, MCP knowledge searches, and UI tool-call counts, or support will never trust the product. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/19-agent-use-case-pilots https://www.geekindata.com/blog/19-agent-use-case-pilots Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Make the case that enterprise agent programs should start from ranked use cases (orchestrator vs single agent vs tools) instead of from a menu of model endpoints. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/7-agent-sessions-vs-the-shell-app https://www.geekindata.com/blog/7-agent-sessions-vs-the-shell-app Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Where conversation state should live when a browser shell wraps a platform agent, and why refresh and quit behavior is an architecture choice. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/42-large-fact-refresh-drift https://www.geekindata.com/blog/42-large-fact-refresh-drift Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Diagnose sales-line style refresh drift as mismatched incremental contracts between notebooks, watermarks, and semantic consumers. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/21-foundry-webapp-deploy-pattern https://www.geekindata.com/blog/21-foundry-webapp-deploy-pattern Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Walk through a VNet-integrated container App Service pattern with secretless OBO, managed identity, and private egress to Foundry, Search, and storage. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/38-secure-proxy-ai-shells https://www.geekindata.com/blog/38-secure-proxy-ai-shells Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Compare hardening options for browser-to-API proxies in front of agent backends, including runtime mismatch and Front Door failure modes. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/16-fabric-pii-redaction-config https://www.geekindata.com/blog/16-fabric-pii-redaction-config Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Show how a reusable notebook-level redaction contract (flags, tokens, regex, known-name UDF) makes free-text exports safe without blanking legitimate addresses and codes. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/35-measurable-controls-flat-facts https://www.geekindata.com/blog/35-measurable-controls-flat-facts Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Replace OUTER APPLY Import-mode checklist pivots with a pre-pivoted gold fact built in PySpark for Direct Lake. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/33-semantic-mixed-fk-types https://www.geekindata.com/blog/33-semantic-mixed-fk-types Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Show how int64 vs string mismatches across role-playing dims silently break relationships and how to align gold SQL with TMDL. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/24-device-events-gold-direct-lake https://www.geekindata.com/blog/24-device-events-gold-direct-lake Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Show why telemetry events belong in gold with contract and service-item enrichment and Direct Lake storage mode for volume. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/15-shortcuts-only-bronze https://www.geekindata.com/blog/15-shortcuts-only-bronze Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Argue that bronze should be a contract of OneLake shortcuts and clean views, not a second physical copy of upstream gold and silver. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/29-materialize-heavy-warehouse-views https://www.geekindata.com/blog/29-materialize-heavy-warehouse-views Thu, 28 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Propose a layered performance playbook: drop orphans, cheap rewrites, then materialize the two or three consolidations everything else depends on. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/34-direct-lake-onelake-regressions https://www.geekindata.com/blog/34-direct-lake-onelake-regressions Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Reframe literal URL required failures as service regressions with validators, promotion playbooks, and support cases - not as eternal architecture dogma. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/31-variable-library-deploy-targets https://www.geekindata.com/blog/31-variable-library-deploy-targets Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Use a Git-tracked Fabric Variable Library with per-stage value sets so rebind notebooks and pipelines stop hard-coding workspace IDs. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/28-service-device-fact-remodel https://www.geekindata.com/blog/28-service-device-fact-remodel Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Show why service-device relationships need an explicit bridge/fact remodel before report pages can be trusted. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/32-pipeline-lineage-explorer https://www.geekindata.com/blog/32-pipeline-lineage-explorer Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Argue for a small lineage explorer over ad-hoc pipeline docs so engineers can see dependencies before they break them. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/18-gold-device-semantic-contract https://www.geekindata.com/blog/18-gold-device-semantic-contract Mon, 11 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Argue that device gold tables only become platform assets when unmatched keys, captions, and relationships are explicit in the semantic model. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/4-databricks-genie-powerpoint-webapp https://www.geekindata.com/blog/4-databricks-genie-powerpoint-webapp Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT What Databricks Genie Code actually changes for deck generation and app deploy when the assistant already sits inside your governed lakehouse context. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/3-azure-image-classification https://www.geekindata.com/blog/3-azure-image-classification Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to shape an image classification web app on Azure AI Services so the UI stays simple, the backend stays operable, and Custom Vision iteration does not become a demo trap. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/2-pose-estimation https://www.geekindata.com/blog/2-pose-estimation Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why real-time pose estimation is a systems problem of capture, inference, and rendering, and how to design for latency, stability, and demos that survive messy video. https://www.geekindata.com/blog/1-fabric-airflow https://www.geekindata.com/blog/1-fabric-airflow Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why Fabric workloads need an explicit orchestration plane, how to keep Airflow thin while Fabric owns the data work, and which failure modes show up when teams collapse both into one tool.