Implementing a Lakehouse with Microsoft Fabric

Harini Mallawaarachchi
Jan 24, 2024
1 min read

Fabric is a Unified SAAS Platform for all your analytical needs.

Learn about Microsoft Fabric, the analytics platform for the era of AI. Connect, ingest, store, and report on data with Data Factory, notebooks, lakehouses, data warehouses, and Power BI. Whether you are a data analyst, data engineer, or analytics engineer, Fabric helps you upskill and advance your career.

Fabric Notes - Simple drawings illustrating the main concepts of Microsoft Fabric

Data Factory: Data integration combining Power Query with the scale of Azure Data Factory to move and transform data.
Synapse Data Engineering: Data engineering with a Spark platform for data transformation at scale.
Synapse Data Warehouse: Data warehousing with industry-leading SQL performance and scale to support data use.
Synapse Data Science: Data science with Azure Machine Learning and Spark for model training and execution tracking in a scalable environment.
Synapse Real-Time Analytics: Real-time analytics to query and analyze large volumes of data in real-time.
Power Bl: Business intelligence for translating data to decisions.
Data Activator: Real-time detection and monitoring of data that can trigger notifications and actions when it finds specified patterns in data.

All the above components are build on top on OneLake.

Fabric is a perfect tool which can be used by different personnels. Previously was just Data Analysts & Data Consumers. But now Data Engineers, Data Scientists, etc...