The month in writing · 2025

May 2025

4 new essays — Architecture & Strategy, Analytics & BI, Data Governance & Compliance.
Showing 04 essays from May 2025
27 MAY 2025 · 5 min read

Build 2025: Agents Talking to Agents, and a Protocol That Might Matter More

Build 2025 leaned all the way into multi-agent systems — agents delegating to other agents to get work done. The demos were impressive. But the announcement I think actually matters got a fraction of the airtime: a boring-sounding open protocol going GA.

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Architecture & Strategy
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23 MAY 2025 · 5 min read

Why We're Not Migrating Everything to Fabric (Yet)

Fabric is our default for new work — and we've deliberately not moved everything onto it. The discipline of deciding what to keep where, and why 'migrate it all' is rarely the plan.

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Architecture & Strategy
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17 MAY 2025 · 5 min read

Copilot in Power BI and Fabric: What's Really Useful (and What's Just Hype)

After a year and a half of Copilot, an honest map of what's genuinely load-bearing, what's a nice convenience, and what's still theatre — plus the one test that sorts them.

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Analytics & BI
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09 MAY 2025 · 5 min read

The Pitfalls of Fabric Without Governance: Three Horror Stories (and Fixes)

Three Fabric governance near-disasters — over-shared data, a duplicated 'truth', a runaway capacity — and exactly how each was caught and fixed. Learn from these instead of living them.

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Data Governance & Compliance
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