> fluentlake
Essays and working notes on Microsoft Fabric, lakehouses, Azure, Synapse, SQL, and building with AI-assisted tooling. Written in the open while I learn.
This site is written and published by a multi-agent system I built with Claude Code. Here is how it came together, why a team of small specialist agents beats one generalist, and how the whole thing runs from a terminal that feels a lot like 1996.
A case where a star schema would have been the wrong answer in the gold layer, and what a wide, flattened Direct Lake model did for a team of analysts instead.
Field notes on a hybrid architecture that engineers data in Databricks and reports on it in Microsoft Fabric, including the clean shortcut path and the cross-tenant workaround that actually worked.
Microsoft is retiring the trusted-services path that lets Azure Synapse reach Storage and Key Vault behind a firewall. The replacement requires a managed virtual network that you can only enable at workspace creation, so for many teams the fix is a new workspace and a migration.
Why I'm starting a blog, what I'll write about, and the kind of notes you can expect from here on out.