What's up with Half.MaxValue in .NET?
A deep dive into the peculiar behaviour of the half-precision floating point type in .NET.
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C# Source Generators Boost Productivity in the Rx.NET Repo
AsyncRx.NET had no tests until C# source generators ported over 7,000 of the existing Rx.NET tests across. .NET Conf 2024 talk on automating test parity.
Data Mesh and Microsoft Fabric - a perfect fit?
Can Microsoft Fabric implement Data Mesh to enhance data value, process integration, and organizational transformation?
Microsoft Fabric ML Tutorial Part 5: Observability
Improve the observability of your data engineering processes using readily available features of Microsoft Fabric and Azure.
Microsoft Fabric ML Tutorial Part 4: Task Flows
A deep dive into using Task Flows to organise all of the data product artefacts in the Microsoft Fabric workspace to align with the Medallion Architecture.
Microsoft Fabric ML Tutorial Part 3: Testing Notebooks
A deep dive into how we go about testing data wrangling logic in Microsoft Fabric, and achieve cleaner, more modular code that is easier to understand and maintain.
How to ensure quality in your data insights
In this session from SQLBits 2024, learn how to improve your data quality by implementing testing strategies for notebooks, data pipelines, and Power BI Reports.
Implementing OpenChain across InnerSource & Open Source
Charlotte Gayton presents an overview of her industrial placement implementing OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 and her final year project on ISO/IEC 18974.
Power BI Storytelling: 20 Years of Brand Financial Trends
This walkthrough of The Global Brand Insights Report examines how design and visualisation choices make data stories with Power BI compelling.
Microsoft Fabric and Data Mesh - a perfect fit?
Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Fabric by establishing domain-orientated ownership & federated governance to deliver high impact data products.
How to actually make architectural decisions for a Data Platform
Strategies and tools to help you make better technical decisions which evolve over time as your context, requirements and situational awareness change.
Compelling Data Storytelling with Power BI: Titanic Survivors
Discover the Titanic Passenger Diagnostic Report and the creative decisions behind its design using Power BI and the Kaggle Titanic dataset.
10x Apache Spark performance improvement in Microsoft Fabric
Learn how we achieved a 10x performance improvement when ingesting small JSON files using Apache Spark in Microsoft Fabric.
Microsoft Fabric - Good Notebook Development Practices
In this episode, we highlight good development practices when working with Fabric Notebooks as a primary artifact type in your code-base.
Fabric ML Tutorial Part 2: Data validation with Great Expectations
A deep dive into data validation using Microsoft Fabric and Great Expectations, for a Predictive Analytics use case with the Kaggle Titanic data set.
Microsoft Fabric ML Tutorial Part 1: Course Overview
An overview of the end-to-end demo evolving from descriptive to predictive analytics with Microsoft Fabric, using the Kaggle Titanic dataset.
Azure Functions Deep Dive
Yan Cui chats to Ian Griffiths about Azure Functions, how it works and how it differs from AWS Lambda.
The Heart of Reactive Extensions for .NET
The mathematical duality between IEnumerable and IObservable — the foundation that makes Reactive Extensions for .NET both powerful and beautifully elegant.
Microsoft Fabric: Bronze to Silver with Fabric Notebooks
In this episode, we show the step-by-step process for converting data from Bronze to Silver using Fabric Notebooks.
Microsoft Fabric: Silver Layer in Medallion Architecture
The Silver layer is where we apply standardization to our source datasets in the Medallion architecture.