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Posts from the workbench.

Honest, technical writing on Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, AI and the Power Platform. No thought-leadership fluff — only patterns we've shipped, mistakes we've corrected, and tradeoffs we're still debating.

Why Direct Lake breaks if you skipped the medallion discipline

Direct Lake is faster than Import — until your Silver layer is undertyped. Field notes from three Fabric migrations.

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DAX variables are not free — measuring the cost of CALCULATE chains

We measured 47 production reports and found a pattern: nested CALCULATE without variables triples query time.

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Grounding Copilot Studio in Fabric — what we wish we'd known

The demos skip the chunking, the access boundaries, and the citation enforcement. Here's the real build.

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An honest ALM pattern for Power Platform — that survives an audit

Three environments, managed solutions, pipelines you don't have to baby-sit.

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Why we cap ourselves at 5 client engagements

Boutique isn't a marketing word. Here's the calendar math, the burnout math, and the senior-led-delivery math.

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OneLake shortcuts vs mirroring — picking the right copy strategy

Shortcuts feel cheaper. Sometimes they are. Here's the decision matrix we apply.

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