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Polyglot Notebooks' PowerShell support enhances IT Ops with robust, repeatable processes via 'executable documentation'.

When we benchmarked endjin's AIS.NET library on .NET 8.0, we were delighted to see substantial performance gains, with no extra work required.

The practice of dimensional modelling to generate Star Schemas was brought to mainstream adoption by Ralph Kimble in his seminal work The Data Warehouse Toolkit in 1996. This blog explains why his principles remain as relevant today as they were 30 years ago.

Investigate some ways of working with strings that prevent unnecessary memory allocations.

Investigate the impact of basic LINQ functions on performance and memory allocation.

Explore basic techniques for benchmarking and identifying allocation sources in code.

Explore techniques to boost .NET performance & memory efficiency, identify allocation sources, and optimize data handling.

Eli joined endjin as part of the Software Engineering Apprenticeship 2021 cohort. In this post she reflects on her first two years.

After a year of working on implementing the OpenChain specification, this blog takes you through the processes we created to track and manage our open-source licenses

As Charlotte's placement comes to an end, she reflects on her year at endjin, highlighting her experiences to take back to University with her

In this post I describe how adopting a product mindset will help you to extract maximum value from Microsoft Fabric.

Explore building situational awareness and leveraging strategic opportunities with Microsoft Fabric in this concise overview.

When we benchmarked endjin's AIS.NET library on .NET 7.0, we were delighted to see substantial performance gains, with no extra work required.

This blog post explores interactive notebooks in Azure Databricks. An Azure Databricks Notebook is a powerful data science tool that support exploratory data analysis, hypothesis testing, data cleaning and transformation, data visualisation, statistical modeling and machine learning.

Explore Microsoft Fabric, inspired by Data Mesh, for a data-driven strategy. Learn to approach a Data Mesh vision using this powerful tool.

Explore Data Mesh's influence on Microsoft Fabric, addressing gaps in data product marketplace, standards, master data management, and governance.

Creating a successful organisation-wide data and analytics platform isn't just about architecture, schemas and semantic models. It's also about culture, organisational design and people. This blog explores the socio-technical nature of data and analytics and how this should influence your approach to adoption of Microsoft Fabric.

Iteration is a core part of programming and the iterator design pattern is central to how we do iteration in C#. This post introduces the iterator pattern and shows how to implement it from scratch.

Explore the benefits of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) in technical design, with real-world examples applied to different scenarios.

In the ever-evolving landscape of data and analytics, the advent of AI-powered capabilities has opened up exciting possibilities for self service reporting. Tools like Copilot in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric offer users the ability to extract insights from data using natural language prompts. It's an enticing prospect, where anyone can explore, visualize, and analyze data without being constrained by pre-canned reports or relying on data engineering teams. However, as we start to embrace these new capabilities, it's essential to strike a balance between the potential benefits and potential pitfalls.

Do you struggle to manage conflicting demands from multiple stakeholders, even when they have agreed about the relative priority of their requests? Apply a budgeting methodology to agile projects for better planning and communication with the team and wider stakeholders.

Microsoft Fabric unifies Power BI, Data Factory & Data Lake on Synapse infrastructure, reducing cost & time while enabling citizen data science.

Explore OneLake, Microsoft Fabric's core storage for data in Azure & other clouds. Discover its role in Fabric workloads, the OneDrive equivalent for data storage.

In this post we compare Azure Synapse Analytics with Microsoft Fabric to understand how features map from Synapse to Fabric.

Microsoft Fabric unifies data & analytics, building on Azure Synapse Analytics for improved data-level interoperability. Explore its offerings & pros/cons.