August 2023

Smart Buildings, Revisited — Now With Fabric

Years after building a smart-building data platform the hard way, I got to point Microsoft Fabric — still in preview — at the same class of problem. Some of it would genuinely have saved me months. Some of it isn't ready, and I'll say which.

What Actually Cuts BI Cost (It's Not the Licence)

When a finance team asks why the BI bill is so high, everyone reaches for the licence line first. It's almost never where the money is. The real cost hides in wasteful compute, duplicated work, and models nobody cleaned up — and that's the good news.