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Beyond the Lakehouse: First Thoughts on Fabric IQ
Announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025, Fabric IQ represents a fundamental shift in how Microsoft Fabric operates
 • Nikola Ilic
Core Analytics Engineering: Data Architectures
Get the data architecture right, and everything else becomes easier.
 • Nikola Ilic
Announcing FabriQuiz - Your Bi-weekly Fun&Learn Show!
I’m extremely thrilled to announce the brand-new initiative I’m launching in early 2026: FabriQuiz!
 • Nikola Ilic
From ‘Dataslows’ to Dataflows: The Gen2 Performance Revolution in Microsoft Fabric
Dataflows were (rightly?) considered "the slowest and least performant option" for ingesting data into Power BI/Microsoft Fabric. However, things are…
 • Nikola Ilic
Understanding the Role of an Analytics Engineer
Every business is a data business now - they just don’t know it yet…
 • Nikola Ilic
24 Hours of Microsoft Fabric training announced!
There is a LOT of Fabric training nowadays! Some of them are free, while the others are paid. And, it's hard to navigate through the noise and make the…
 • Nikola Ilic
How to Perform Common Data Transformations in Microsoft Fabric!
Discover how to perform 5 essential data transformations in Microsoft Fabric using PySpark, T-SQL, and KQL.
 • Nikola Ilic
Head First Data
Head First Data
Let's make some music from the data together! I'm Nikola, Data Mozart, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, O'Reilly and Pluralsight author. I'm writing (mostly) about the Microsoft data platform - Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Visca Barca!
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