Matthew Adams
Another great piece in Barry Smart's series on #Microsoft #Fabric, this time looking at alignment with #DataMesh principles. #endjin https://endjin.com/blog/2023/08/how-does-microsoft-fabric-measure-up-to-data-mesh
How Does Microsoft Fabric Measure Up To Data Mesh? | endjin

Data Mesh is the latest approach for delivering data-driven value at scale. Microsoft Fabric has been heavily influenced by Data Mesh, but there are gaps that you will need to address. This article will help you assess how much support Microsoft Fabric will give to enabling a Data Mesh inspired vision.

Aug 7, 2023 at 8:23amWeb
Show threadWayne SebbensAug 7, 2023

@ythos I'm not sure if we were just too early to jump on the Fabric train or not, but we ended up dropping back to just Synapse Analytics. We had a lot of trouble trying to set up a data flow/pipeline to transform data from a database (but was an absolute cinch in Synapse).

Have you (or anyone else seeing this) had success in that area?

Show threadMatthew AdamsAug 8, 2023
@sebbs The quick answer is that yes, it is *very* early. But I'd be interested to know exactly what your points of friction are, and maybe we have some suggestions. If you don't want to discuss the detail in public, feel free to DM me.
Show threadWayne SebbensAug 8, 2023

@ythos The main difficulty was transforming the data after loading the DB tables - even though Fabric is (apparently) built on top of Synapse, we didn't find anything similar to Synapse's Data flows. The closest we got was doing it with Power Queries, but we just experienced constant timeouts (both previewing the data and writing to a lake/warehouse).

I'm totally willing to accept the possibility we missed something - a lot of the docs were focused on unstructured storage rather than relational