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Event Schema Set: Contracts That Stop Midnight Breakage
Episode 21 • 2026-05-22
Event Schema Set is Fabric's contract layer for streaming data — but it ships in Preview with real gaps. Matthias and Fabia unpack the retrofit trap, the dead-letter gap everyone worries about, and when Confluent Schema Registry is honestly the better call.
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The Fabric Friday video on this topic: https://youtu.be/dY7fGdiP9dE
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Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Matthias — cloned voice. Fabia — designed AI co-host. See Matthias live on YouTube (Fabric Friday), at his meetups, and at conferences like FabCon.
Hosted by Matthias Falland — Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community architect behind the Fabric Periodic Table. New episodes every Friday.
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Have an architecture decision you are wrestling with? DM Matthias on LinkedIn — find him as Matthias Falland. Three to five sentences about the decision, your team size, and your current stack. We anonymize before airing.
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Brand design based on fabricperiodictable.com.
Data Activator: Stateful Alerts That Don't Spam Your Team
Episode 20 • 2026-05-15
Data Activator is Fabric's no-code event detection engine — but most teams build it wrong. Matthias and Fabia unpack the stateful rule model, the billing trap everyone hits once, and when Power Automate is actually the better answer.
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The Fabric Friday video on this topic: https://youtu.be/ceJoY7YxWvk
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About the show
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Matthias — cloned voice. Fabia — designed AI co-host. See Matthias live on YouTube (Fabric Friday), at his meetups, and at conferences like FabCon.
Hosted by Matthias Falland — Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community architect behind the Fabric Periodic Table. New episodes every Friday.
Submit your case
Have an architecture decision you are wrestling with? DM Matthias on LinkedIn — find him as Matthias Falland. Three to five sentences about the decision, your team size, and your current stack. We anonymize before airing.
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Brand design based on fabricperiodictable.com.
Real-Time Dashboard: When 10-Second Refresh Changes the Architecture
Episode 19 • 2026-05-08
Real-Time Dashboard is not Power BI wearing a different hat. Matthias and Fabia unpack the naming collision, permission separation, Activator alert traps, and when you should actually use Power BI DirectQuery instead.
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The Fabric Friday video on this topic: https://youtu.be/A_AFcP40K8E
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About the show
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Matthias — cloned voice. Fabia — designed AI co-host. See Matthias live on YouTube (Fabric Friday), at his meetups, and at conferences like FabCon.
Hosted by Matthias Falland — Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community architect behind the Fabric Periodic Table. New episodes every Friday.
Submit your case
Have an architecture decision you are wrestling with? DM Matthias on LinkedIn — find him as Matthias Falland. Three to five sentences about the decision, your team size, and your current stack. We anonymize before airing.
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Brand design based on fabricperiodictable.com.
Real-Time Hub: The Yellow Pages Your Streams Were Missing
Episode 18 • 2026-05-01
Matthias and Fabia unpack Fabric's Real-Time Hub — the tenant-wide catalog that sits above Eventstream, Eventhouse, and Activator. They tackle why it feels redundant until it doesn't, dig into a real Reddit question about skipping the Hub entirely, and lay out the four-layer real-time stack every architect should internalize.
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The Fabric Friday video on this topic: https://youtu.be/tZmw36djm9w
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About the show
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Matthias — cloned voice. Fabia — designed AI co-host. See Matthias live on YouTube (Fabric Friday), at his meetups, and at conferences like FabCon.
Hosted by Matthias Falland — Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community architect behind the Fabric Periodic Table. New episodes every Friday.
Submit your case
Have an architecture decision you are wrestling with? DM Matthias on LinkedIn — find him as Matthias Falland. Three to five sentences about the decision, your team size, and your current stack. We anonymize before airing.
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Brand design based on fabricperiodictable.com.
KQL Queryset: Why Pipe-Forward Beats SQL for Time-Series
Episode 17 • 2026-04-24
Matthias and Fabia explore the KQL Queryset in Microsoft Fabric — why the pipe-forward mental model beats SQL for time-series data, when to use make-series vs bin+summarize, and the architectural decision between KQL Queryset, Notebooks, and the SQL endpoint.
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The Fabric Friday video on this topic: https://youtu.be/8amqWDeHT2Y
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About the show
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Matthias — cloned voice. Fabia — designed AI co-host. See Matthias live on YouTube (Fabric Friday), at his meetups, and at conferences like FabCon.
Hosted by Matthias Falland — Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community architect behind the Fabric Periodic Table. New episodes every Friday.
Submit your case
Have an architecture decision you are wrestling with? DM Matthias on LinkedIn — find him as Matthias Falland. Three to five sentences about the decision, your team size, and your current stack. We anonymize before airing.
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Brand design based on fabricperiodictable.com.
KQL Database: Why Time-Series Data Needs Its Own Engine
Episode 16 • 2026-04-17
Matthias and Fabia explore why KQL Database exists alongside four other analytical stores in Microsoft Fabric. They unpack the Eventhouse-as-building mental model, the caching vs retention trap, and when you should — and shouldn't — choose KQL over SQL.
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The Fabric Friday video on this topic: https://youtu.be/z57H_Zqvbkc
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About the show
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Matthias — cloned voice. Fabia — designed AI co-host. See Matthias live on YouTube (Fabric Friday), at his meetups, and at conferences like FabCon.
Hosted by Matthias Falland — Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community architect behind the Fabric Periodic Table. New episodes every Friday.
Submit your case
Have an architecture decision you are wrestling with? DM Matthias on LinkedIn — find him as Matthias Falland. Three to five sentences about the decision, your team size, and your current stack. We anonymize before airing.
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Brand design based on fabricperiodictable.com.
Eventstreams — When No-Code Streaming Hides the Failure Mode
Episode 15 • 2026-04-10
Matthias and Fabia break down Fabric Eventstreams — the visual stream processor that replaces three Azure services with one canvas. They explore why green doesn't always mean flowing, tackle Kafka compatibility from a real Reddit question, and walk through the four billing meters that confuse every FinOps team.
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The Fabric Friday video on this topic: https://youtu.be/oWEPB9q-rMs
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About the show
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Matthias — cloned voice. Fabia — designed AI co-host. See Matthias live on YouTube (Fabric Friday), at his meetups, and at conferences like FabCon.
Hosted by Matthias Falland — Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community architect behind the Fabric Periodic Table. New episodes every Friday.
Submit your case
Have an architecture decision you are wrestling with? DM Matthias on LinkedIn — find him as Matthias Falland. Three to five sentences about the decision, your team size, and your current stack. We anonymize before airing.
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Brand design based on fabricperiodictable.com.
Eventhouse — Why Your Lakehouse Can't Do Real-Time
Episode 14 • 2026-04-03
Matthias and Fabia break down Microsoft Fabric's Eventhouse — when you need a dedicated real-time store, how hot and cold cache tiers drive your bill, and why the default cache policy is the most common Eventhouse mistake.
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The Fabric Friday video on this topic: https://youtu.be/IxdoLrtDykM
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About the show
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Matthias — cloned voice. Fabia — designed AI co-host. See Matthias live on YouTube (Fabric Friday), at his meetups, and at conferences like FabCon.
Hosted by Matthias Falland — Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community architect behind the Fabric Periodic Table. New episodes every Friday.
Submit your case
Have an architecture decision you are wrestling with? DM Matthias on LinkedIn — find him as Matthias Falland. Three to five sentences about the decision, your team size, and your current stack. We anonymize before airing.
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Brand design based on fabricperiodictable.com.
Apache Airflow in Fabric: When Code-First Orchestration Earns Its Keep
Episode 13 • 2026-03-27
When should you reach for Apache Airflow Job instead of Data Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric? Matthias and Fabia break down pool types, cost traps, dbt fragility, and the architectural threshold where visual orchestration breaks down.
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The Fabric Friday video on this topic: https://youtu.be/21mzNmKqBuo
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About the show
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Matthias — cloned voice. Fabia — designed AI co-host. See Matthias live on YouTube (Fabric Friday), at his meetups, and at conferences like FabCon.
Hosted by Matthias Falland — Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community architect behind the Fabric Periodic Table. New episodes every Friday.
Submit your case
Have an architecture decision you are wrestling with? DM Matthias on LinkedIn — find him as Matthias Falland. Three to five sentences about the decision, your team size, and your current stack. We anonymize before airing.
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Brand design based on fabricperiodictable.com.
Copy Job: When Built-In State Management Beats Pipeline Plumbing
Episode 12 • 2026-03-20
Copy Job fills the gap between Mirroring's zero-config simplicity and Pipeline's full orchestration control. We break down the architecture, the 2x incremental pricing controversy, V-Order performance traps, and when you should still reach for Pipeline Copy Activity instead.
What we discuss
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The Fabric Friday video on this topic: https://youtu.be/JHLYx4jyvVQ
Resources
About the show
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Matthias — cloned voice. Fabia — designed AI co-host. See Matthias live on YouTube (Fabric Friday), at his meetups, and at conferences like FabCon.
Hosted by Matthias Falland — Microsoft Data Platform MVP and community architect behind the Fabric Periodic Table. New episodes every Friday.
Submit your case
Have an architecture decision you are wrestling with? DM Matthias on LinkedIn — find him as Matthias Falland. Three to five sentences about the decision, your team size, and your current stack. We anonymize before airing.
Built on ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Brand design based on fabricperiodictable.com.
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