As organizations scale their Microsoft Fabric implementations, structuring workspaces and capacities becomes key to maintaining balance between agility, control, and cost.
In my latest video, I explore two architecture patterns:
- 7-Workspace Architecture
- Bronze: Raw ingestion
- Silver (Dev/Test/Prod): Curated and transformed layers
- Gold (Dev/Test/Prod): Business-ready semantic models and reports
- Optimized using a dedicated Dev capacity to reduce cost and isolate experimental workloads.
- 8-Workspace Architecture
- Adds a Silver Self-Service workspace between Silver and Gold.
- Enables governed, flexible data access for business teams without impacting core production.
- Uses an additional Self-Service capacity to offload variable workloads and prevent throttling on main capacities.
This setup offers a practical blueprint for balancing governance with flexibility – ensuring stability, scalability, and efficient cost management across enterprise Fabric deployments.
