Sam Debruyn

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Data Platform Architect ☁️ #Azure, 📊 #MicrosoftFabric, dbt Microsoft Data Platform MVP & dbt Community Award 🇧🇪 Heist-op-den-Berg 🍜 indiewokker

What happens in Vegas... actually gets cached locally and shaves up to 60% off your repeat reads. Fresh "Fabric under the hood" post: a deep dive into Project Vegas, the intelligent caching layer between Spark and OneLake. debruyn.dev/2026/fabric-... #MicrosoftFabric

Fabric under the hood: project Vegas

Microsoft Fabric has been out for a couple of years now. Have you ever wondered what is under the hood? There are lots of interesting things hiding in plain sight. Today, let’s take a look at Project ...

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I just published a blog post exploring what powers Microsoft Fabric's Python and PySpark workloads under the hood. Turns out there's a fascinating cluster management system running behind the scenes that most users never see. 🤫 Curious? ➡️ debruyn.dev/2026/fabric-... #MicrosoftFabric #ApacheSpark

Fabric under the hood: the Big Bad Cluster

Microsoft Fabric has been out for a couple of years now, have you ever wondered what is under the hood? There are lots of interesting things hiding in plain sight. Today, let’s take a look at Fabric’s...

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I’d like to cut out the noise and go back to RSS for my tech content reading, but it seems that bloggers don’t put the RSS links on their blogs anymore 🙃

"Oh, Sam, the icon guy!" Somehow my blog post with all the Fabric icons became my most popular one. People even recognize me as that guy who made all the Fabric icons easily available for usage in architecture diagrams. So a 2026 update was due... have fun diagramming! debruyn.dev/2026/all-mic...

All Microsoft Fabric icons for diagramming (2026 edition)

Do you often have to draw up diagrams of data flows or data architectures and would you like to use Microsoft Fabric icons in your diagrams? Then this post is for you! I always found it hard to find t...

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