Data Engineering Foundations in Microsoft Fabric

🎯 The Problem: You have a shiny new Fabric capacity, but where do you even start? Lakehouse? Warehouse? Dataflows? The Microsoft documentation is 500+ pages, and every blog post assumes you already know the basics.
💡 This Evening: In 90 minutes, we'll show you the 4 essential building blocks of data engineering in Fabric - with live demos and the design decisions Microsoft made (and why they matter for YOUR architecture).
⏱️ Save yourself: 2-3 weeks of trial and error. We've compressed 4 weeks of Fabric Friday content into one power session.
What you'll learn:
🏠 Lakehouse Architecture - Delta Lake, Medallion Pattern, and WHY the SQL endpoint is read-only by design
🔗 OneLake Shortcuts - Multi-cloud data access without copying, and WHY internal vs external shortcuts differ
📓 Fabric Notebooks - Code-first data engineering, and WHY `%%python` vs `%%pyspark` matters for performance
🔄 Dataflow Gen2 - Power Query at enterprise scale, and WHY staging is the secret weapon
Demos:

• Build a Lakehouse with Medallion Architecture
• Connect external S3/ADLS data with Shortcuts
• Transform data with both Notebooks AND Dataflows
• Compare: When to use which tool

Who should attend: Data Engineers, BI Developers, Solution Architects
Agenda:

• 18:30 - Welcome & Networking
• 18:45 - Lakehouse & Shortcuts (Theory + Demo)
• 19:15 - Notebooks & Dataflows (Theory + Demo)
• 19:45 - Decision Framework: When to Use What
• 19:55 - Q&A and Discussion
• 20:00 - Networking & Drinks