📧 DATA TALK WEEKLY — Issue #1
A Professional Newsletter for Power BI Developers, Fabric Architects & Data Engineers
🧭 This Week’s Deep Dive
The Doctrine of Distribution: Why Your Power BI Reports Require Apostolic Succession
Power BI teams love to talk about “single source of truth”…
until they ship dashboards like missionaries without scripture.
We cover:
Why distribution is the missing BI discipline
How workspace sprawl creates contradictory “truths”
Why org apps are your canonical scripture
How to enforce lineage, inheritance & version trust
🎧 Listen: https://podcast.m365.show/episode/the-doctrine-of-distribution
⚡ Microsoft Data Highlights — What Matters This Week
1️⃣ Fabric Snapshots Are the Only Version of Truth
ETL isn’t stable — it mutates your tables mid-refresh.
Snapshots deliver actual correctness.
🎧 Listen: https://podcast.m365.show/episode/fabric-snapshots-version-of-truth
2️⃣ Logic Apps vs Power Automate — The 1400 Connector Lie
A breakdown of throttling, throughput, endpoints, hybrid, and real enterprise-scale integration.
🎧 Listen: https://podcast.m365.show/episode/logic-apps-vs-power-automate
3️⃣ Python Is Dead (Inside the Microsoft AI Stack)
Why Python is not the operational AI language for Fabric, Power BI, or Power Automate.
🎧 Listen: https://podcast.m365.show/episode/python-is-dead
🏗 Architecture Focus
Why Your Fabric Data Warehouse Is Still a CSV Graveyard
Most organizations drag CSV fossils into OneLake instead of building semantic intelligence.
🎧 Listen: https://podcast.m365.show/episode/csv-graveyard-fabric-warehouse
🔧 Engineering Insights
Stop Using Default Gateway Settings — Fix Power Platform Connectivity
Understand how TLS, caching, and concurrency actually behave.
🎧 Listen: https://podcast.m365.show/episode/gateway-settings
Power BI’s Hidden Order of Operations
Foldability traps, deferred steps, filters that move, and why your numbers break.
🎧 Listen: https://podcast.m365.show/episode/power-bi-order-of-operations
🧠 Semantic Layer Thinking
Your Fabric Data Model Is Lying to Copilot
Bad Bronze → leaky Silver → fake Gold → hallucinating AI.
🎧 Listen: https://podcast.m365.show/episode/fabric-model-lying-to-copilot
🛠 Quick Roundup (All Links Included)
Stop Writing SQL — https://podcast.m365.show/episode/stop-writing-sql
Power BI Project Success — https://podcast.m365.show/episode/project-success
Hub & Spoke Planning — https://podcast.m365.show/episode/hub-spoke
Dataverse Pitfalls — https://podcast.m365.show/episode/dataverse-pitfalls
Fabric Dataflows Cost — https://podcast.m365.show/episode/dataflows-cost
GPT-5 Fixes Governance — https://podcast.m365.show/episode/gpt5-governance
Stop Cleaning Data — https://podcast.m365.show/episode/stop-cleaning-data
Dataverse vs SharePoint — https://podcast.m365.show/episode/dataverse-vs-sharepoint
NVMe Fix for Fabric Lake — https://podcast.m365.show/episode/nvme-fix
Dataverse Security — https://podcast.m365.show/episode/dataverse-security
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Really sharp framing on the apostolic succession metaphor for report distribution. The tension between workspace sprawl and canonical truth is where most BI teams actualy bleed credibility. Your point about organization apps as scriptue hits home because inheritence breaks the minute someone forks a copy into a private workspace. The semantic layer decay you mention (Bronze to hallucinating AI) is the perfect illustration of wh y lineage isn't optional anymore,it's the only path to trust at scale.