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Writing on Microsoft Fabric, from the middle of the work.

Specific questions that come up mid-project: sizing, storage modes, reconciliation, governance. Written to be useful to the person who is stuck, not to rank for the person who is browsing.

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    October 9, 2026 · 8 min read

    Direct Lake or Import: choosing a storage mode for a Fabric semantic model

    Direct Lake removes the refresh, not the modeling work. When it beats Import, when Import is still the right answer, the two Direct Lake variants that behave differently under pressure, and the Delta table habits that decide performance.

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  2. 02

    October 9, 2026 · 7 min read

    How to size a Microsoft Fabric capacity against real workload

    Most Fabric capacities are sized by guess and corrected by pain. A two-week method for sizing from measured load, what smoothing and throttling do to the number you pick, and the three mistakes that leave an F64 doing an F16's work.

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