Yesterday, I gave a presentation at Microsoft Fabcon in Atlanta titled “Building the Well-Architected Framework for Fabric”. I’ve been a public speaker for nearly 20 years, and I don’t usually get nervous before a talk. Not that I was shaking yesterday, but given this was a new topic for me, and a big crowd (I had over 350 people sign up for my session), I wanted to make sure...

Ever since the parquet format came out over a decade ago, it became very popular for analytics workloads. Being columnar in format, it allowed for massive scale analytics, while delivering strong and lossless compression. Various engines including Snowflake, Databricks, Synapse, SQL Server, and other databases I’m likely ignoring can all interact with Parquet. In it’s newer i...