A collection of diagrams and presentation materials developed by Dan Friedman to help explain Microsoft Fabric and Power BI concepts. These are designed to support workshops, customer conversations, internal enablement sessions, and self-guided learning.
All diagrams are authored in Excalidraw and stored as .excalidraw JSON files. You can open them directly at excalidraw.com (File → Open) or with the Excalidraw VS Code extension.
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Fabric overview | High-level view of the Microsoft Fabric platform and its workloads. |
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Fabric and AI tools | Map of Fabric workloads and AI tooling across development and analytics scenarios. |
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Fabric dev cycle | Local and workspace development workflows, Git feature branches, pull requests, and deployment across development, test, and production environments. |
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Fabric costs explainer | How Fabric capacity, consumption, and billing fit together. |
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Fabric and Power BI Licensing | How Fabric capacity and Power BI licensing options relate across creators and consumers. |
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Fabric governance and security | Workspace roles, OneLake and item-level data security, semantic model permissions, Fabric policies, and Purview governance. |
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Power BI dev cycle | Development lifecycle for Power BI semantic models and reports. |
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Fabric Spark compute and concurrency | Node sizes, pool types (starter/custom/live), Spark autoscale, Spark pool configuration, pricing and CU consumption, and high concurrency sessions. |
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See CHANGELOG.md for a history of additions and changes.
These are living documents — if you spot something inaccurate or have suggestions, feel free to open an issue or PR.
See LICENSE.