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Production notes on Fabric, Azure agents, and platform design

GeekInData is my blog of notes from real delivery work on Microsoft Fabric, Azure agents, Databricks, and Power Platform. What broke, what we changed, and what held up.

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  1. Sep 2, 2026

    Env files are not environments: isolate with Azure CLI discipline

    Show how collapsing redundant env templates and treating Azure CLI subscriptions/resource groups as the real isolation boundary prevents...

  2. Sep 2, 2026

    Rename the estate once: workspace naming is architecture

    Argue that inconsistent workspace display-name prefixes create operational tax and that a one-time rename with stable catalog names is...

  3. Aug 21, 2026

    Feature toggles beat hard-coded agent IDs

    Replace hard-coded agent catalogs with product feature flags plus per-agent overlay rows for scope, starters, export prefixes, and access...

  4. Aug 21, 2026

    Language gates belong in CI, not in code review folklore

    Argue for native CI linters and language test gates so white-label and locale regressions fail the build before demos do.

  5. Aug 20, 2026

    Genie readiness is a modeling problem, not a prompt problem

    What has to be true in naming, modeling, and catalog descriptions before conversational analytics tools like Genie produce trustworthy...

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