Issue #4

This week's issue of Fabric Digest features a deep dive into Optimized Writes in a Spark Notebook, a tutorial showcasing how to use configuration files for dynamic Data Pipelines, a Reddit JSON API challenge, and much more.

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Chris Lentz
August 19, 2024

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- Miles Cole

This article by Miles Cole discusses the Optimized Writes feature in Microsoft Fabric's Spark Runtimes. This feature improves performance for partitioned tables by reducing the number of small files through data shuffling.

- Aleksi Partanen

In this video Aleksi explains how to create flexible, configuration-based data pipelines in Microsoft Fabric, allowing you to easily adapt to different tasks by adjusting configuration files.

- Christabelle Santos

Check out this article by Christabelle where they explain how to use Azure Logic Apps to automatically pause unused Microsoft Fabric capacity in non-production environments, helping to save on costs by reducing unnecessary resource usage.

- Someleze Diko

See how the fictitious bike rental company Contoso Bikes utilizes the power of Data Activator and Power Automate to optimize bike availability by triggering alerts and workflows when the number of bikes in a neighborhood falls below a certain threshold.

- Learn Microsoft Fabric with Will

Interested in taking the Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600) exam? Check out this free 6+ hour-long course on YouTube from Learn Microsoft Fabric with Will.

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Reddit JSON API - Did you know that Reddit is accessible through a free and open JSON API? Try saving the top 50 posts from the past year in r/MicrosoftFabric as a JSON file in a Lakehouse. Then, build a report to demonstrate which month had the most top posts.

Most Popular From Last Issue

- BKColts88

Someone on Reddit wondered why we have separate concepts like a Lakehouse and a Data Warehouse when both ultimately create Delta Parquet files. As always, the excellent r/MicrosoftFabric community delivered some excellent insights.

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