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

Explore AI-powered self-service reporting with tools like Copilot in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, balancing benefits and 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 Microsoft Fabric vs Synapse comparison we examine how features map from Azure Synapse to Fabric.

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

For the first time since 2020, a new release of Rx.NET is available, supporting .NET 6 and .NET 7.

Discover the use of Synapse Notebooks in Azure Synapse Analytics for data analysis, cleaning, visualization, and machine learning.

Explore how to implement source control in Databricks notebooks, promoting software engineering best practices.

Open-source software has become an essential part of many organisation's software supply chain, however, this poses challenges with license compliance and security assurance.

Performing certain deployment operations from a cloud-based CI/CD agent against resources that are only accessible via private networking are problematic. The often-cited solution is to use your own hosted agents that are also connected to the same private networks, however, this introduces additional costs and maintenance overhead. This post discusses an approach that combines the use of cloud-based CI/CD agents with 'just-in-time' allow-listing as an alternative to operating your own private agents.

C# 11.0 adds some new pattern matching features. In this post, Ian shows the new support for matching lists.

Learn about the thinking behind endjin's Power BI Maturity assessment by applying Wardley Doctrine, and asking more questions.

This is a summary of the sessions I attended at SQLbits 2023 in Newport Wales, which is Europe's largest expert led data conference.

This blog shows how to transform a document based format to a tabular format whilst managing all the nested properties

Learn to configure AAD or MSA 2FA profiles for UI automation testing with Time-based One-Time Passwords.

Why you should make writing unit tests a regular practice and how they will improve your code. This blog explains how to write unit tests in PowerShell using Pester.

C# 11.0 adds some new pattern matching features. In this post, Ian shows the new support for matching lists.

Implement Python data validation with Pandera & Great Expectations in this comparison of their features and use cases.

Explore using Python virtual environments & Poetry on Windows for smoother workflows, with a script & guide to enhance your dependency management experience.

Charlotte is studying for a Bachelor of Engineering - BEng (Hons), Computer Science at the University of York. She was part of our 2021 internship cohort, and is spending her Year in Industry placement with endjin too. In this post she reflects on her first 6 months.

C# 11.0 enhances string literals with new features. Discover how multiline interpolated strings boost readability in Ian's insightful post.

C# 11.0 adds various improvements to string literals. In this post, Ian explains how we can now create UTF-8 string literals.

workflow_dispatch inputs in GitHub Actions are always strings, even when typed as boolean, and passing them to reusable workflows causes a type mismatch error. Here's the fix and the backstory of our Azure DevOps migration.