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Nalaka Wanniarachchi
Microsoft Fabric Capacity Management & Billing
🎙️ This podcast dives into how Fabric capacity works, including the evolution of bursting & smoothing, the differences between RI vs PAYG, and the billing impact of pausing, restarting, scaling up/down Fabric capacities. 💼✨ 🧾⚙️ Several helpful resources were used, including LinkedIn Fabric Billing Article Series by Matthew Farrow from Microsoft. 🚄 Feel free to adjust the playback speed to suit your preference.
What's New in Microsoft Fabric Direct Lake (April 2025 Onwards)
Direct Lake on OneLake is a game-changer for working with large-scale data in OneLake, offering faster, simpler, and more flexible semantic modeling in Power BI. What is Direct Lake on OneLake? It's a new storage mode for Power BI semantic models that allows direct connection to Delta tables stored in Microsoft Fabric's OneLake. This bypasses the SQL analytics endpoint of Lakehouses and Warehouses.
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Nalaka Wanniarachchi
Nalaka Wanniarachchi
Nalaka Wanniarachchi is an accomplished data analytics and data engineering professional with over 18 years of experience. As a CIMA(ACMA/CGMA) UK qualified ex-banker with strong analytical skills, he transitioned into building robust data solutions. Nalaka specializes in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, delivering advanced analytics and engineering solutions. He holds a Microsoft certification as a Fabric Analytic Engineer and Power BI Professional, combining technical expertise with a deep understanding of financial and business analytics.