Cloud

SQLBits is one of the largest data platform conferences in Europe. Here's a recap of my experience at SQLBits 2026, held at the ICC Wales.

FabCon is a conference dedicated to everything Microsoft Fabric. Day 3's sessions included migration, Databricks, Spark optimisation, and more.

FabCon is a conference dedicated to everything Microsoft Fabric. Day 2 featured deep dives into OneLake, Maps in Fabric, and multi-agent AI systems.

FabCon is a conference dedicated to everything Microsoft Fabric. Day 1 was mostly focused around the hundreds of new feature announcements.

Write data back to SharePoint from Synapse Notebooks using PySpark, the Microsoft Graph API, and Service Principal auth — Drive IDs, tokens, and upload patterns.

This post describes an approach to copy files and data from SharePoint into Azure using Synapse Notebooks.

This post describes an approach to copy files and data from SharePoint into Azure using Synapse Pipelines.

The interactive notebook shared in this post defines the process of granting Service Principals (inc. Synapse managed identities) access to SharePoint sites.

Extending carbon-optimised pipelines: choose between Azure regions at runtime, work around Wait activity limits, and adapt the pattern beyond the UK.

A portable Data Factory, Synapse, or Fabric pipeline that calls the Carbon Intensity API and waits for the greenest scheduling window — no custom code.

Translating carbon-optimised scheduling into a modern data pipeline architecture for Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse and Azure Data Factory.

Cloud data pipelines often have flexibility in when they run. Using the UK National Grid Carbon Intensity API, you can schedule them for the greenest window.