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Real-Time2026-01-08

Understanding CU consumption of streaming systems in Microsoft Fabric

I really struggled with a title for this post, because it covers a lot of ground. It's a long read, but totally worth it. Ultimately I settled on "Understanding CU consumption of streaming systems in Fabric". I have been wanting to understand for a while the impact various archit

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Real-Time2025-12-02

Mastering Data Export in Eventhouse: From Eventstream to OneLake and SQL

First, I can't believe we're already at 10 editions! Super excited to see how much this has grown already really looking forward to next year! This will be the last edition of the year, stay tuned to see some exciting things I'm working on for early 2026! With all of the Ignite a

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Real-Time2025-09-02

Seamlessly Ingesting XML Data into Eventhouse

As organizations increasingly rely on real-time data streaming for analytics and operations, integrating various data formats into modern event stores becomes a critical task. XML, while less common than JSON in cloud-native architectures, is still widely used for legacy integrat

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