Microsoft Fabric is billed by capacity, not per job. How CU-seconds and F-SKUs work, what really drives your bill (load method, destination, idle Spark, Direct Lake vs Import), and how to size it.
What is new in Microsoft Fabric after FabCon 2026: unified observability and the Monitor Hub, smart pipeline retries, Runtime 2.0, Project Osmos and the zero-provisioned F0.
A complete, step-by-step system for designing a Microsoft Fabric platform: data strategy, medallion architecture, semantic layer, capacity, security, operations and DevOps.
A vendor-neutral readiness checklist: the signals that say move to Microsoft Fabric now, the signals that say wait, the real cost model, and a staged migration path for UAE businesses.
FabCon 2026 deep dive: Real-Time Hub business events, Eventhouse query acceleration, Fabric IQ ontologies, agents, deployment plans and cross-organisation data sharing.
Microsoft Fabric’s new zero-provisioned F0 capacity and on-demand billing: pay only for the compute you use, how it works, who it is for, and how it cuts cost.
Save money on Microsoft Fabric by pausing capacity when idle: how billing works, manual pause/resume, automating it on a schedule, and how much you can save.
FabCon Europe 2026 (Barcelona) highlights: Fabric IQ and data agents go GA, the Database Hub, expanded mirroring, Fabric Apps for Power BI Pro, and governance in Copilot.
How Power BI and Databricks work together — connecting Power BI to the Databricks lakehouse, Import vs DirectQuery, Unity Catalog governance and performance tips.
Microsoft Fabric vs Azure Databricks: an honest comparison of strengths, use cases, cost and ecosystem to help UAE businesses choose the right data platform.