Engineering AI: Beyond the Prompt
Build or Buy Your AI Agent Loop? The Real Trade-Off
Should you use OpenAI’s Agents API or build the loop yourself? A practical guide to what each choice removes, what it costs, and what you still own.
Tag: Microsoft Fabric
Data Engineering: Systems That Stay Up
A Boring (But Battle-Tested) Fabric Stack: Copy Job → dbt + Spark → MLV → Direct Lake
Why boring tools, clear responsibilities, and the right abstractions give me back my weekends.
Data Engineering: Systems That Stay Up
Web Scraping in Fabric: It’s a Rendering Problem, Not a Scraping Problem
Most web scraping problems aren’t really scraping problems. They’re rendering problems. Here’s what I learned when Power Query returned an empty div and Web Browser Content saved the day.
Data Engineering: Systems That Stay Up
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Security Is Finally GA — Here’s What You Need To Know
OneLake security just hit GA in May 2026 — and it’s a game-changer for Microsoft Fabric governance. Here’s how the new unified data plane security model closes the gaps between Power BI, Spark, and SQL analytics endpoints, with real code and gotchas I’ve learned the hard way.