Reading series
Fabric lakehouse architecture
Topology, refresh, semantic parity, and CI/CD blast radius for Microsoft Fabric lakehouses.
Posts in this series
Read in order for the full architecture arc, or jump to the post you need.
Part 1 · Aug 5, 2026 · 9 min read
One Fabric lakehouse with schemas vs many lakehouses
How to choose between multiple Fabric lakehouses and a schema-enabled lakehouse for bronze, silver, and gold, including CI/CD and naming fallout.
Part 2 · Aug 6, 2026 · 9 min read
Semantic refresh architecture: notebooks, pipelines, and Direct Lake
How to choose notebook, pipeline, or scheduled refresh for lakehouse semantics, and when Direct Lake beats a SQL endpoint for heavy facts.
Part 3 · Aug 12, 2026 · 9 min read
Legacy to lakehouse: semantic parity is the real migration
Why lakehouse migrations fail on NULL versus zero, float pennies, and type rebase settings, and how to treat parity as a contract.
Part 4 · Aug 7, 2026 · 9 min read
Fabric CI/CD blast radius: when no changes still deploys
Why Fabric deployment tooling can republish unchanged notebooks and how to design for stable identities and smaller blast radius.