Explicit Measures Podcast 457: Planning Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity
Sep 12, 2025
Stephanie Bruno, organizer behind Pittsburgh SQL Saturday with hands-on Fabric pilot experience. She walks through Microsoft Fabric capacity SKUs, practical rollout differences from Power BI, and how to set up POCs. Conversation covers workspace strategies, noisy-neighbor risks, pausing nonprod, and tools for estimating and monitoring capacity.
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Hands On Fabric Crash Course At Chicago User Group
- Anecdote: At the Chicago user group, Tommy and Mike will run a hands-on Fabric crash course with lake house, notebooks and SQL endpoints.
- The in-person event is on October 2nd at the Aon building, bringing tenant access for attendees to experiment.
Isolate Dev Test From Production And Pause When Idle
- Do separate development/test capacity from production to avoid noisy-neighbor impacts and take advantage of pausing to save cost.
- Mike Carlo and Stephanie Bruno advise running dev on smaller, pausable SKUs and only keeping prod always-on.
Use The Capacity Metrics App To Find Heavy Workloads
- Do instrument and monitor capacity use with the Fabric Capacity Metrics app to see what jobs consume CEUs.
- Tommy Puglia and Stephanie stress the metrics app (or custom monitoring) is vital to identify which notebooks, pipelines, or refreshes are heavy.