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Polyglot Notebooks for Ops

Polyglot Notebooks for Ops

James Dawson

Polyglot Notebooks' PowerShell support enhances IT Ops with robust, repeatable processes via 'executable documentation'.
How .NET 8.0 boosted AIS.NET performance by 27%

How .NET 8.0 boosted AIS.NET performance by 27%

Ian Griffiths

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.
Star Schemas are fundamental to unleashing value from data in Microsoft Fabric

Star Schemas are fundamental to unleashing value from data in Microsoft Fabric

Barry Smart

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.
Optimising .NET code: Avoiding allocations using Span<T>

Optimising .NET code: Avoiding allocations using Span<T>

Jonathan George

Investigate some ways of working with strings that prevent unnecessary memory allocations.
Optimising .NET code: Let's blame LINQ

Optimising .NET code: Let's blame LINQ

Jonathan George

Investigate the impact of basic LINQ functions on performance and memory allocation.
Optimising .NET code: Hunting for allocations

Optimising .NET code: Hunting for allocations

Jonathan George

Explore basic techniques for benchmarking and identifying allocation sources in code.
Optimising .NET code: Introduction

Optimising .NET code: Introduction

Jonathan George

Explore techniques to boost .NET performance & memory efficiency, identify allocation sources, and optimize data handling.
Life as an Apprentice Engineer at endjin

Life as an Apprentice Engineer at endjin

Elisenda Gascon

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

Implementing the OpenChain Specification

Charlotte Gayton

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
My year in industry as a whole

My year in industry as a whole

Charlotte Gayton

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
Adopt A Product Mindset To Maximise Value From Microsoft Fabric

Adopt A Product Mindset To Maximise Value From Microsoft Fabric

Barry Smart

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

Exploring Strategies Enabled By Microsoft Fabric

Barry Smart

Explore building situational awareness and leveraging strategic opportunities with Microsoft Fabric in this concise overview.
How .NET 7.0 boosted AIS.NET performance by 19%

How .NET 7.0 boosted AIS.NET performance by 19%

Ian Griffiths

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.
Notebooks in Azure Databricks

Notebooks in Azure Databricks

Jessica Hill

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.
Developing a Data Mesh Inspired Vision Using Microsoft Fabric

Developing a Data Mesh Inspired Vision Using Microsoft Fabric

Barry Smart

Explore Microsoft Fabric, inspired by Data Mesh, for a data-driven strategy. Learn to approach a Data Mesh vision using this powerful tool.
How Does Microsoft Fabric Measure Up To Data Mesh?

How Does Microsoft Fabric Measure Up To Data Mesh?

Barry Smart

Explore Data Mesh's influence on Microsoft Fabric, addressing gaps in data product marketplace, standards, master data management, and governance.
Microsoft Fabric Is A Socio-Technical Endeavour

Microsoft Fabric Is A Socio-Technical Endeavour

Barry Smart

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.
C# Design Patterns - Iterator - The Pattern

C# Design Patterns - Iterator - The Pattern

Liam Mooney

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.
Architecture Decision Records

Architecture Decision Records

James Broome

Explore the benefits of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) in technical design, with real-world examples applied to different scenarios.
Copilot - Are You Ready to Unleash the Power of AI in Self Service Analytics?

Copilot - Are You Ready to Unleash the Power of AI in Self Service Analytics?

James Broome

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.
Agile teams often get their planning and priorities wrong

Agile teams often get their planning and priorities wrong

Matthew Adams

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: Announced

Microsoft Fabric: Announced

Ed Freeman

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

What is OneLake?

Ed Freeman

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.
Azure Synapse Analytics versus Microsoft Fabric: A Side by Side Comparison

Azure Synapse Analytics versus Microsoft Fabric: A Side by Side Comparison

Barry Smart

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

Intro to Microsoft Fabric

Ed Freeman

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