Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about Microsoft Fabric as a unified platform. It provides all the natively integrated capabilities with which to design and build end-to-end analytics systems, all the way from Data Factory (for data ingestion) and Data Engineering (for data transformation) to Data Science, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Analytics, and Power BI for data visualization.

You also learned about core capabilities, such as OneLake and OneCopy, and how they break data silos and remove the need for data redundancy across different systems by using data storage format standardization (the open source Delta Lake format), which is used by all Fabric engines, making the platform open at every layer and able to avoid vendor lock-ins. You learned about shortcuts and how they let you create data virtualization layers for all your enterprise data (with multi-cloud support), providing access without the need for data movement and copying.

Finally, you learned about how the...