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Sam Debruyn

@debruyn.dev
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Data Platform Architect ☁️ #Azure, 📊 #MicrosoftFabric, dbt Microsoft Data Platform MVP & dbt Community Award 🇧🇪 Heist-op-den-Berg 🍜 indiewokker

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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 29/06/2026
I'd like to introduce you to a new tool I built: CLI and MCP server for Fabric Data Warehouse 🚀 Easily manage your Fabric Data Warehouse from the terminal or use all of its features in Copilot or Claude debruyn.dev/2026/introdu... #MVPBuzz #MicrosoftFabric #FabricDataWarehouse
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Introducing the Fabric Data Warehouse CLI and MCP Server
Today I’m introducing a new side project that I’ve been working on: the Fabric Data Warehouse CLI and MCP Server . This tool is designed to simplify the management and interaction with Microsoft Fabri...
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 08/06/2026
What happens in Vegas... actually gets cached locally and shaves up to 60% off your repeat reads. Fresh "Fabric under the hood" post: a deep dive into Project Vegas, the intelligent caching layer between Spark and OneLake. debruyn.dev/2026/fabric-... #MicrosoftFabric
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Fabric under the hood: project Vegas
Microsoft Fabric has been out for a couple of years now. Have you ever wondered what is under the hood? There are lots of interesting things hiding in plain sight. Today, let’s take a look at Project ...
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 24/05/2026
I just published a blog post exploring what powers Microsoft Fabric's Python and PySpark workloads under the hood. Turns out there's a fascinating cluster management system running behind the scenes that most users never see. 🤫 Curious? ➡️ debruyn.dev/2026/fabric-... #MicrosoftFabric #ApacheSpark
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Fabric under the hood: the Big Bad Cluster
Microsoft Fabric has been out for a couple of years now, have you ever wondered what is under the hood? There are lots of interesting things hiding in plain sight. Today, let’s take a look at Fabric’s...
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 15/05/2026
@cathrinew.net Do you happen to have the RSS link to your blog? 🙂
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 15/05/2026
I’d like to cut out the noise and go back to RSS for my tech content reading, but it seems that bloggers don’t put the RSS links on their blogs anymore 🙃
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 15/05/2026
@2meterdba.bsky.social Heb je toevallig een RSS link van je blog?
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 14/05/2026
"Oh, Sam, the icon guy!" Somehow my blog post with all the Fabric icons became my most popular one. People even recognize me as that guy who made all the Fabric icons easily available for usage in architecture diagrams. So a 2026 update was due... have fun diagramming! debruyn.dev/2026/all-mic...
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All Microsoft Fabric icons for diagramming (2026 edition)
Do you often have to draw up diagrams of data flows or data architectures and would you like to use Microsoft Fabric icons in your diagrams? Then this post is for you! I always found it hard to find t...
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 30/10/2025
I did not think there was any overlap in people who’d attend your talks (smart folks) and people who’d follow Musk (well euh…)
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 30/10/2025
Congrats!
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 23/09/2025
Wow it’s hard to report spam/scams on @github.com
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 07/08/2025
Personally I run it on CloudFlare Pages where it's just a few clicks
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 02/08/2025
This is why I moved from jekyll to hugo.
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 27/07/2025
Hamilton did
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 11/07/2025
Oef 😥 Spijtig wel, zowel voor jou als voor de community! Hopelijk houdt het je niet tegen om te blijven doen wat je doet
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 10/07/2025
www.neowin.net/guides/googl...
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Google can now read your WhatsApp messages, here's how to stop it
Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 10/07/2025
www.holovaty.com/writing/chat...
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 07/07/2025
I have the same vice versa. We have high import tariffs and US based shippers rarely deal with that. I often have to pay UPS upon delivery.
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 07/07/2025
👀 /r/microsoft is also interesting these days... Is this way of working a recent thing? Knowing what you know now, would you have joined them in the first place?
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 07/07/2025
Got it, thanks for explaining! Especially given the reason for your layoff, it does not seem fair. Like it's not something you have any say in. I understand how this feels bitter.
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 07/07/2025
Care to elaborate how that stock grant works? How does this financial instrument work? When can you cash out if (apparently) not at exit?
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 08/06/2025
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts fly.io/blog/youre-a...
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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
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Koen Verbeeck @koenv.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Very interested in this #MicrosoftFabric session at @techorama.bsky.social . That's a big screen. @debruyn.dev for scale.
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 08/06/2025
haha thanks!😊
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 08/05/2025
Building a browser from scratch youtube.com/watch?v=9YM7...
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Andreas Kling's Keynote Presentation on the Ladybird Browser
YouTube video by FUTO
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 04/05/2025
The 13 software engineering laws newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-13-sof...
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The 13 software engineering laws
Hyrum's law, Conway’s law, Zawinski's law, and 10 others.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 25/04/2025
One very funny part of this outage: all the self-hosters stayed online
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 25/04/2025
Python's new t-strings davepeck.org/2025/04/11/p...
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 23/04/2025
Want to know which packages are preinstalled in the Fabric Runtime? ➡️ debruyn.dev/2025/quick-t... #MicrosoftFabric
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Quick Tip: Fabric Runtime preinstalled packages
Today I have a quick tip for you. I thought that I could find the list of preinstalled Python packages somewhere on Microsoft Learn , but either Microsoft stopped publishing this, or I couldn’t find i...
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 17/04/2025
Interesting read: nerdy.dev/ex-googler US tech companies often seem to suck at HR.
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G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler. · April 10, 2025
My role at Google was eliminated.
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Americans who are unsure of how Canadians are feeling right now should peep the replies to this thread 👀
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 13/04/2025
New blog: A comprehensive guide to authentication for Azure SQL, Synapse, and Microsoft Fabric 🔐 No more token confusion! Learn all the scopes and methods to programmatically access Microsoft data services in 2025. Check it out: debruyn.dev/2025/all-the... #MicrosoftFabric #AzureSQL #MVPBuzz
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All the different ways to authenticate to Azure SQL, Synapse, and Fabric
In this post I’ll go over all the details on acquiring access tokens to authenticate to any Microsoft SQL engine, including Azure SQL, Azure Synapse and Microsoft Fabric. We’ll explore users, service ...
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 12/04/2025
Thank you for the picture :)
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 02/04/2025
There is no queue if you use the mobile app
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 08/12/2024
👋
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 04/12/2024
Met de 3 A’s :) Wat is de betekenis erachter?
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 03/12/2024
@liavanbekhoven.bsky.social Is de “Vlaaamse” in je bio intentioneel?
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 03/12/2024
Heb je iets tegen macOS?
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 03/12/2024
Alias usernames might be a good idea so that nobody can steal your handle in the meantime
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 01/12/2024
You need social media for your career?? Care to explain?
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 01/12/2024
Why the “if I could”? You can.
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 28/11/2024
Maybe a bit a random tweet but hats off to @jan.ohmyposh.dev for building nifty and impressive FOSS tools and keeping on maintaining and improving them
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 28/11/2024
Not you?
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 28/11/2024
Ik vond de reactie van @gwendolynrutten.bsky.social ook wel opmerkelijk dat ze bij zo’n statement ook meteen al een lijstje met mogelijke namen had. De mannen met problematisch gedrag zijn dan wel degelijk gekend.
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🐥pdrm🐣 @pedramnavid.com · 28/11/2024
never liked the alibaba models but couldn’t put my finger on why
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 25/11/2024
Just wondering: if users set up their own PDS, does this offload capacity from your servers? Or is the impact negligible?
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Kirsten Lum @machsci.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Do the transforms in the SQL, not in the visualization tool
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Mehdi Ouazza @mehdio.com · 24/11/2024
My thoughts on uv, the #python package manager (and much more), along with a gentle getting-started guide www.youtube.com/watch?v=goIw...
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This fixes Python : uv is the future of package management
YouTube video by mehdio DataTV
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 24/11/2024
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...
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Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? - The Old New Thing
Simplifying the problem to an earlier problem.
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Sam Debruyn @debruyn.dev · 23/11/2024
Moving away from Synology Photos. To Immich or Ente... still undecided 🤷‍♂️
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