Data Engineering
ODBC to ADBC Migration Playbook for Microsoft Fabric
Moving Off ODBC in Fabric: A Migration Playbook for Analytics Teams
Frank Garofalo
Cloud Solutions Architect & Data Engineering leader at Microsoft. I build production AI, data, and home-lab systems — Azure, Fabric, Copilot, Proxmox/Ceph — and write about what actually works. New posts weekly.
Data Engineering
Azure SQL for Enterprise Coding Agents
Why Azure SQL Is Becoming the Default Database for Coding Agents
VS Code
Token-Smart Copilot: Configuring VS Code and GitHub Copilot with Your Own Models on Azure AI Foundry via APIM
A tutorial on configuring VS Code and GitHub Copilot to use your own models deployed in Azure AI Foundry, routed through Azure API Management — including model routing strategy for token efficiency and a workbook design for measuring it.
AI/ML
Microsoft Fabric Local MCP as an Enterprise Agent Runtime
How Fabric Local MCP Could Turn Microsoft Fabric Into an Agent Runtime
AI/ML
Fabric Local MCP as an Enterprise Agent Runtime Strategy
How Fabric Local MCP Could Turn Microsoft Fabric Into an Agent Runtime
Data Engineering
OneLake Catalog Table Discovery for Fabric Governance
OneLake Catalog table discovery: the missing usability layer for Fabric governance
Data Engineering
Fabric Medallion Architecture for Warehouse Governance
Fabric medallion architecture in practice: what the new warehouse guidance changes
AI/ML
Databricks Big Book of AgentOps for Enterprise Leaders
Announcing the Databricks Big Book of AgentOps
AI/ML
MCP Apps for Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Leaders
MCP Apps: Bringing Interactive UI to Microsoft 365 Copilot
AI/ML
Azure Copilot Agent Access Architecture and Governance
Azure Copilot just got direct agent access — now the real architecture decisions start
AI/ML
Clinical AI Agent Governance Checklist for Dragon Copilot
My first production checklist for Dragon Copilot agents: start with governance, not the demo
Data Engineering
Microsoft Fabric IQ for Governed Semantic Analytics
Fabric IQ and the next wave of semantic analytics in Microsoft Fabric