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Fabric Architecture Decision Guide

The decisions that are expensive to reverse in Microsoft Fabric, with the trade-offs laid out.

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What it covers#

The five Fabric decisions that constrain everything downstream, each with the conditions that should push you one way or the other — plus a fill-in decision record so your reasoning survives the people who made it.

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Lakehouse or warehouse, Direct Lake or import, where transformation logic lives — a decision record template with the trade-offs already written up.

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