2023-05-26 - Microsoft Fabric - Chewing the Fat 📈

[lukecookssw]

Hey team,

Let's talk about this rule

[wicksipedia]

In the realm of data so drastic,
A tool emerged, named Microsoft Fabric.
With AI reports it's quite elastic,
Analyzing data, it's so fantastic,
In insights gleaned, it's truly dramatic!

[SamBWagner]

I think it's rad 🎉. I'm not the biggest fan of the over focus on CoPilot as it kind of detracts from the coolness that is Fabric itself. I'm also keen to start the journey of learning more about data in a professional environment and get it 'in code'. 🤓

[tkapa]

very nice for people who are fine with being locked into the MS ecosystem. Like Sam said, I dont much care for the CoPilot side of this.

[ozdemir-mehmet]

Look forward to stitching the fabric

[calumjs]

Nice marketing vids - would love some clarification of what we can do now that we couldn't do before though

[brydeno]

It's mainly nothing new (it's much more a stitching together of all the disparate pieces they had, probably why they call it fabric :) ).
The AI engine is even not that new, although probably getting towards being functionally usable now.

[jakebayliss]

Rule is do you use a data lake but mostly talks about Microsoft Fabric? I feel like it should focus on what a data lake is rather than what Fabric is, either that or change the rule title. Almost no info on what a data lake is/why its used/pros/cons

[SamBWagner]

Very true. Should be called "Data Lakes - Do you use Microsoft Fabric"

[brydeno]

I think the problem is a Data Lake is one component of Fabric, and not even the most important. Data Lakes are just giant buckets of related files with data in them.... Fabric, in theory is mainly about what you put on top of that to actually make sense of that.
Keeping things in a data lake organised and clean is a big job, and all these things will help. Having them altogether in one place, may help more than having them all separate (as they were before).

[Hona]

Yep I clicked into the rule thinking I could catch a break from AI. then I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't.

[jaydenalchin]

The videos are nice!

[hveraus]

I think Microsoft is getting better and better at their presentations, those Fluent UI things are really really nice on the showcase videos, but when I see the actual product I'll be like your meme. 😅

[Hona]

Yep the wider usage of Fluent UI is very cool

[camillars]

+1 with Jayden & I prefer the 2nd video 😆

[MarcusIrmscherSSW]

With my limited understanding, Fabric seems like it will be a great tool for streamlining data management and make data analytics so much simpler.

[chrisschultzssw]

Seems cool - as a SysAdmin, it's nice to see products being "unified". Hopefully it means less things (silos) to manage.

[AshAnil]

Fabric + Copilot = Awesome! +1 with Chris. Unifying products means fewer things to manage. Enjoy the benefits!

[danielmackay]

I like the idea of Microsoft Fabic (although I do wished they stopped reusing the same name for different things. Would love to learn a bit more about this (among many other things), and see it in action in a real world environment.

[ncn-ssw]

I want to play with it before forming any solid opinions on it. The training appears to be here.

[drwharris]

They look to have done a pretty good job of combining everything into a cohesive environment.

[MattParkerDev]

Fabric looks cool. We should mention OneLake in the rule in combination with Fabric.

[SofieHong]

Learned a new concept "unstructured data" and only realized today that videos and images belong to unstructured data. 🎬🖼️

Prefer the second video because it did a better job of presenting "what we can do" with more details and explanations than the first video. 📝

[apforsyth]

Looks fantastic but you gotta wonder how integrated it all is, really... Only a non-biased super user will be able to tell you, know anyone who can answer that?

[tino-liu]

This is going to be super helpful for figuring out complex data fetches. Imagine needing to figure out tons of inner and outer joins. What a nightmare.

[AttackOnMorty]

Copilot is everywhere!

[jerryluossw]

Big data and AI are the future, it's more and more clear.

[duanxinhuan]

I think modify data is really easy with padans by a few lines of python code. Why fabric?

[PothieuG]

I had never heard of Fabric until today, but it seems extremely powerful, and the assistance provided by Copilot seems incredible !

[BrookJeynes]

Seems like a useful tool when you can't remember SQL syntax

[Marxoz]

Looks good if it can do what is says it can do… Will definitely open a lot of opportunities for companies, but I would like to see the speed first…. It almost sounds too good to be true.

[Freego1783]

Looks promising ! I feel like the Copilot integration will be awesome 😄

[TobyChurches]

Looks like a cool product, looking forward to giving it a try! 🤓

[jackreimers]

The videos are well put together but as someone who isn't super familiar with data products I'll need to do some further reading on the topic. Very keen to learn more about it!

[ozair-ashfaque]

It looks like a powerful tool

[jernejk]

I really like the idea of Microsoft Fabric and how it makes ML (at least from the video) a lot more accessible, especially the unstructured kind.

If the purpose of the rule is to promote the MS Fabric, then it does its job. Just not used to seeing the rules to be used like that.

[JackDevAU]

Fabric seems like a super powerful tool and I can't wait to try it out! The videos gave a good understanding of what it does and its potential!