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What You Need to Know About Fabric
Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2026 - Jan/Feb
Mike argues that Microsoft Fabric is a unifying platform designed to tame fragmented data estates by consolidating diverse data into a single, secure, and governed system called OneLake. By standardizing storage in Delta Parquet across warehouses, lakes, and lakehouses, and pairing robust data engineering, governance (Purview), and AI-enabled Copilots with a simple pay-one-price model, Fabric enables real-time insights, scalable analytics, and AI readiness while maintaining lineage, security, and manageability across dispersed sources and subsidiaries.

