3 min read
May 29th, 2024
By David Giraldo

What is Data engineering in Microsoft Fabric?

Platform: Microsoft Fabric

In today’s business world, data is the lifeblood that drives decision-making and strategy. For small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. and Canadausing data effectively can be the difference between thriving and just getting by. Discover how Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric can transform your business with advanced analytics, Power BI integration, and seamless data visualization.

Microsoft Fabric, launched recently, has quickly become a must-have tool for optimizing data workflows. With strong data engineering capabilities, it helps companies build, manage, and deploy data pipelines efficiently. This not only makes complex data tasks simpler but also boosts team collaboration and innovation. Let’s explore what data engineering in Microsoft Fabric is all about and how it can benefit your business.

What Can You Do with Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric?

Data engineering in Microsoft Fabric covers essential tasks for modern businesses, such as data ingestion, processing and transformation, and storage, all within one unified platform. With Fabric consulting services, you can create automated workloads to ingest data from different data sources, clean, validate and transform data to meet your needs, and make it available to create detailed reports and dashboards that give you valuable insights into your operations.

Here’s what you can do with Microsoft Fabric:

Automate Data Pipelines: Keep your data fresh and accurate by streamlining data collection and transformation.
Enhance Data Quality: Ensure your data is reliable with cleansing and validation processes.
Integrate with Power BI and Excel: Build interactive, visually appealing dashboards and reports.
Collaborate Effectively: Improve efficiency with real-time collaboration tools from Microsoft.

What is Data Pipeline?

If data is the lifeblood of your company, data pipelines are your arteries. Data pipelines move data smoothly through your organization, from one system to another. For example, it can take the orders placed by your customers through your website, process and load it into your lakehouse or data warehouse and make it available to your supply chain team sourcing the parts and materials needed to fill the orders. All of this in an automated fashion with no human intervention.

Key parts include:

Data Ingestion: Collect data from different sources like apps, ERP systems, databases, APIs, and Excel files.
Data Transformation: Clean, enrich, merge, and format data for business needs.
Data Loading: Store processed data in a warehouse or lakehouse for analysis.
Full Pipeline Path | Data engineering in Microsoft Fabric

Introducing the Lakehouse: Your Data Powerhouse

Microsoft Fabric's Lakehouse redefines how businesses harness the power of their data by seamlessly marrying the flexibility of a data lake with the reliability of a data warehouse. Whether it's unstructured data like videos and PDF files, semi-structured data such as JSON files, or well-structured tables in Excel or databases, the Lakehouse accommodates them all, ensuring data consistency and high performance for critical operations.

What is Lakehouse?

A Lakehouse combines the best of data lakes and data warehouses. In Microsoft Fabric, a lakehouse offers the flexibility and scalability of a data lake with the structure and performance of a data warehouse.


With a Lakehouse, you can:

Store Vast Amounts of Data: Handle unstructured -videos, pdf files, photos-, semi-structured -json files, non-structured Excel files-, and structured data -well formatted tables in Excel, SharePoint Lists, tables of a database-.
Ensure Data Consistency: Maintain high performance and reliability for critical operations.
Simplify Data Management: Use one platform for all types of data.

What is Notebook in Microsoft Fabric?

Notebooks offer an interactive space to create and share documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and text. You can use multiple programming languages like Python, R, and Scala for data tasks.

Can Fabric handle Big Data?

Microsoft Fabric was born Big Data ready since it runs Apache Sparkjobs,the standard framework engine for big data processing.

Benefits include:

High Performance: Process large datasets quickly, in billions of rows.

Scalability: Adjust up or down easily to meet your data processing needs.

Flexibility: Support various data sources and formats.

Conclusions

Data engineering in Microsoft Fabric gives businesses the tools to leverage their data fully. With Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and advanced data workflows, you can gain insights, make smart decisions, and grow your business.

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