From Chaos to Control: Capacity Planning in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric is brilliant at unifying your data platform. It’s less brilliant at unifying your budget after someone leaves a rogue pipeline running all weekend. Capacity planning isn’t the shiny button on the toolbar that nobody clicks — it’s the difference between a well-oiled analytics machine and a helpdesk full of angry emails about “the system being slow again”.

In this talk we’ll rummage through the messy cupboard of Fabric resources — warehouses, lakehouses, pipelines and all the other houses — and figure out how to actually keep them in line. We’ll look at how to see who’s hogging the sweets, how to forecast when demand will spike (hint: usually five minutes before a board meeting), and how to stop firefighting every performance wobble.

Expect practical tips, some mildly sarcastic observations, and a playbook for going from reactive chaos to proactive control. By the end, you’ll know how to stop Fabric from running you ragged — and start running Fabric like you actually meant it.

Our speaker Alex Ward is a long-term PowerBI developer having moved into Microsoft Fabric since it's inception. Alex spends his days building reports for Support application data for Acora's data platform giving managers and support agents data at their fingertips.

Join us for beer and pizza as always!