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June 5, 2026 / 7 min read

How this blog gets made: HAL, a terminal, and a little BBS nostalgia

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.

  • claude-code
  • ai
  • meta
May 30, 2026 / 7 min read

Does the gold layer always have to be a star schema?

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.

  • lakehouse
  • fabric
  • data-modeling
  • power-bi
May 30, 2026 / 9 min read

Databricks for Engineering, Fabric for Reporting

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.

  • fabric
  • databricks
  • lakehouse
  • power-bi
May 30, 2026 / 13 min read

Synapse is retiring trusted-services access on 1 August 2026, and it may mean a new workspace

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.

  • synapse
  • azure
  • d365
May 29, 2026 / 2 min read

Welcome to FluentLake

Why I'm starting a blog, what I'll write about, and the kind of notes you can expect from here on out.

  • fabric
  • lakehouse
  • claude-code
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