What happens in Vegas... actually gets cached locally and shaves up to 60% off your repeat reads. Fresh "Fabric under the hood" post: a deep dive into Project Vegas, the intelligent caching layer between Spark and OneLake. debruyn.dev/2026/fabric-... #MicrosoftFabric

I just published a blog post exploring what powers Microsoft Fabric's Python and PySpark workloads under the hood. Turns out there's a fascinating cluster management system running behind the scenes that most users never see. 🤫 Curious? ➡️ debruyn.dev/2026/fabric-... #MicrosoftFabric #ApacheSpark

@cathrinew.net Do you happen to have the RSS link to your blog? 🙂

I’d like to cut out the noise and go back to RSS for my tech content reading, but it seems that bloggers don’t put the RSS links on their blogs anymore 🙃

@2meterdba.bsky.social Heb je toevallig een RSS link van je blog?

"Oh, Sam, the icon guy!" Somehow my blog post with all the Fabric icons became my most popular one. People even recognize me as that guy who made all the Fabric icons easily available for usage in architecture diagrams. So a 2026 update was due... have fun diagramming! debruyn.dev/2026/all-mic...

Wow it’s hard to report spam/scams on @github.com

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts fly.io/blog/youre-a...

Very interested in this #MicrosoftFabric session at @techorama.bsky.social . That's a big screen. @debruyn.dev for scale.

Building a browser from scratch youtube.com/watch?v=9YM7...

The 13 software engineering laws newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-13-sof...

One very funny part of this outage: all the self-hosters stayed online

Python's new t-strings davepeck.org/2025/04/11/p...

Want to know which packages are preinstalled in the Fabric Runtime? ➡️ debruyn.dev/2025/quick-t... #MicrosoftFabric

Interesting read: nerdy.dev/ex-googler US tech companies often seem to suck at HR.

Americans who are unsure of how Canadians are feeling right now should peep the replies to this thread 👀

New blog: A comprehensive guide to authentication for Azure SQL, Synapse, and Microsoft Fabric 🔐 No more token confusion! Learn all the scopes and methods to programmatically access Microsoft data services in 2025. Check it out: debruyn.dev/2025/all-the... #MicrosoftFabric #AzureSQL #MVPBuzz

@liavanbekhoven.bsky.social Is de “Vlaaamse” in je bio intentioneel?

Maybe a bit a random tweet but hats off to @jan.ohmyposh.dev for building nifty and impressive FOSS tools and keeping on maintaining and improving them

never liked the alibaba models but couldn’t put my finger on why

Do the transforms in the SQL, not in the visualization tool

My thoughts on uv, the #python package manager (and much more), along with a gentle getting-started guide www.youtube.com/watch?v=goIw...

Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...

Moving away from Synology Photos. To Immich or Ente... still undecided 🤷‍♂️

all belgian houses are ugly, it is a nation without beauty

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Here I was thinking it was Bluesky that was down

The new Mac Mini is great — now do the iPhone SE www.theverge.com/2024/11/15/2...

Our Call for Speakers is open! And yes we’ll be 5 next January!

Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇

I'm sure the AT protocol is fine, but what makes this place 10x better than Mastodon is that a) I didn't have to think about a server when signing up b) I can quote tweet some fools when needed

O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-d...

Just when I thought I've seen it all, a PostgreSQL extension shows up that allows you to embed a SQLite database inside a table. github.com/frectonz/pgl...

The modern data pipeline is ELELTLELTLTLTLTL

when you’re scrolling and your phone switches from dark mode to light mode

Just tried to ‘git vommit’, in case you were wondering how my Monday is going

Pro tip - I never use notifications for any social media app. Nothing can ever happen on social media that I need to be notified of. I only see it if I choose to check it. Protects my peace nicely.

I just took the new #MicrosoftFabric DP-700 #certification exam, released only hours ago. This new exam is aimed at data engineers working with Microsoft Fabric. ➡️ Find out what my experiences where and how I'd recommend preparing for the exam: debruyn.dev/2024/i-just-...

Have you been struggling to integrate Neon with dbt Cloud? 🔗 In my latest blog post, I break down the step-by-step process of connecting Neon with dbt Cloud. 👉 Check out the full article here: debruyn.dev/2024/connect... #dbt #neon #postgres

🤔 Lakehouse, Warehouse, or both? #MicrosoftFabric offers you a lot of flexibility, but that also often comes back into discussion topics: should I use the lakehouse or the data warehouse? debruyn.dev/2023/fabric-... #datawarehouse #datalakehouse #lakehouse #dataplatform

There is 1 question/remark about Microsoft Fabric that I see popping up over and over: 🙋 Is Fabric just a rebranding❓ Let's be clear: the answer is NO. Let's dig deeper and understand why: debruyn.dev/2023/is-micr... #MicrosoftFabric #dataplatform

There are 2️⃣ things I'm taking away from 🇬🇧 Big Data LDN: - Delta Lake has won the data format wars 🏆 - the open 🔓 lakehouse is going to the data platform of the future debruyn.dev/2023/my-take... #dataplatforms #bigdatalondon #bigdataldn #dataconference #lakehouse #datawarehouse #deltalake

🎬 Part 5 concludes my posts on the #MicrosoftFabric end-to-end use case analyzing electricity pricing 🔌💶. We're looking at taking our #dbt project to Power BI to build a report 📈 showing the pricing evolution. ➡️ debruyn.dev/2023/fabric-...

The highlight ⭐️ of my #MicrosoftFabric end-to-end use case on electricity pricing 🔌💶 and my longest blog post ever is up! Transform data in the Lakehouse and build views using #dbt! #analyticsengineering #AzureDataCommunity #SQLFamily debruyn.dev/2023/fabric-...

Looks like my end-to-end use case on #MicrosoftFabric gained quite some attention, so I can imagine some of you are looking forward to the next part 🤩 So, here it is: part 3️⃣, focusing on 🛠️ Pipelines and 📘 Notebooks in Fabric! #AzureDataCommunity #DataEngineering debruyn.dev/2023/fabric-...

Today I published part 2 of my 5-part series on an end-to-end use case in #MicrosoftFabric. In today's post: notebooks 📔, Spark ⚡️, Delta Lake, OneLake, and BeautifulSoup 🥣. debruyn.dev/2023/fabric-...