What is Fabric?

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Alex Kuntz

Technical Instructional Designer

A typical data workfow

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Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Raw data is collected

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Data is organized into databases

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Data flows from the database to a Data Scientist's notebook where they use tools like TensorFlow or PyTorch

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Issues with the typical data workflow

  • Permissions for various tools across different teams
  • Differences in preferred programming languages

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Fabric's solution

  • End to end data analytics platform
  • Use cases for data engineers, database administrators, data scientists, BI developers, and more

An image showing the different components of Fabric as a unified experience for storage, governance, security, and business modeling

1 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-microsoft-fabric-data-analytics-for-the-era-of-ai/
Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Fabric's Workloads

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  • Data Factory workload for data engineers
  • Data Science workload for data scientists (makes sense!)
1 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/fundamentals/microsoft-fabric-overview
Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Fabric's Workloads

An image of the workloads in Fabric

All experiences use the same data source: OneLake

1 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-microsoft-fabric-data-analytics-for-the-era-of-ai/
Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

All data stored in OneLake

  • All workloads use the same data source

An image showing different experiences using different engines to interact with data stored in OneLake

1 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/microsoft-fabric-overview
Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

All data stored in OneLake

  • All workloads use the same data source

Highlighting a data engineer using the T-SQL engine

1 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/microsoft-fabric-overview
Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

All data stored in OneLake

  • All workloads use the same data source

data-scientist-workflow.png

1 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/microsoft-fabric-overview
Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

All data stored in OneLake

  • All workloads use the same data source
  • Single unified experience made possible through OneLake

An image showing different experiences using different engines to interact with data stored in OneLake

1 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/microsoft-fabric-overview
Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

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Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

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