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The Microsoft Fabric video series by Dr. Estera Kot
Fabric Espresso is a technical video series on Microsoft Fabric. Dr. Estera Kot created the series and hosts it. Most episodes feature guests from the Microsoft Fabric product group, the engineers and product managers who build the features under discussion. The YouTube descriptions name Dr. Kot as host or speaker on 53 of the 89 episodes. Product group colleagues host others, including the Warehouse series.
Episodes cover Spark in Fabric, the Native Execution Engine, Data Engineering, Data Science, Warehouse, Data Factory, Real-Time Intelligence, and governance. The 89 episodes run about 22 hours in total. Episodes were published between June 2023 and December 2025.
The full series is on YouTube: Fabric Espresso playlist .
Episodes are grouped by topic and numbered in publication order. Each episode page carries the YouTube description, the chapter list where YouTube has one, and a link to the video.
Topics
Spark and Data Engineering
No. Episode Length Published
13 Top Microsoft Fabric Features that Every Data Engineer Should Know 8:57 Jul 25, 2023 15 Data Engineer perspective on loading data for Fabric: Uploads, Data Flows, Copy Tool or Shortcuts? 8:44 Aug 1, 2023 17 Data Engineer’s perspective on storing data in Fabric: Lakehouse or Warehouse? 5:05 Aug 8, 2023 23 Spark Compute in Fabric Data Engineering and Data Science - Starter Pools vs Custom Pools Unveiled! 16:55 Aug 30, 2023 24 High Concurrency Mode in Microsoft Fabric 16:09 Sep 5, 2023 25 Spark Data Engineering Patterns – Shortcuts and external tables 15:47 Sep 13, 2023 31 Spark Data Engineering Patterns Optimizing Delta Tables for Power Bi in Microsoft Fabric 16:26 Oct 3, 2023 33 Microsoft Fabric Notebooks - Showcase with advanced features 27:51 Oct 10, 2023 34 Microsoft Fabric Spark integration and VS Code 27:10 Oct 24, 2023 36 Microsoft Fabric Spark Utilities - mssparkutils 21:16 Nov 7, 2023 38 Data Engineering Starter Kit - Quick Start with Fabric Product Group 12:13 Nov 28, 2023 44 Fabric Spark Compute Capabilities - Azure VM's and their impact on performance 9:23 Feb 21, 2024 46 Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering - How to make the reference file work in Spark Job Definitions? 14:13 Mar 12, 2024 57 Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering – Apache Spark Jobs Monitoring 11:11 Jun 11, 2024 58 Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering - Notebooks Monitoring and Apache Spark Jobs Advisor 10:43 Jun 18, 2024 59 Fabric Apache Spark Jobs monitoring capabilities - Resource Usage Analysis 10:33 Jun 25, 2024 60 Fabric Apache Spark Autotune and Run Series Job Analysis in Monitoring Hub 17:51 Jul 2, 2024 62 Native execution engine for Apache Spark in Fabric 20:30 Jul 16, 2024 63 Microsoft Fabric Optimistic Job Admission for Apache Spark - maximum compute utilization by default 19:05 Jul 23, 2024 65 ML based Autotune for Apache Spark Jobs in MS Fabric performance optimization for recurrent jobs 28:11 Aug 13, 2024 67 Apache Spark Runtimes in Microsoft Fabric – Runtime 1.3 based on Apache Spark 3.5 16:41 Aug 27, 2024 71 Spark in Microsoft Fabric and Spark SQL for DW Users 34:46 Sep 24, 2024 73 Lifecycle of Apache Spark Runtimes in MS Fabric Unpacking Experimental Preview, GA & End of Support 16:41 Oct 8, 2024 76 Job Queueing for Notebook in Microsoft Fabric | Spark Compute 27:14 Oct 29, 2024 77 Microsoft Fabric environment - A consolidated item for all your hardware and software settings 23:06 Nov 5, 2024 79 High Concurrency Mode for Notebooks in Pipelines for Fabric Spark 16:01 Nov 19, 2024 81 Microsoft Fabric Product Group presents T-SQL support in Microsoft Fabric Notebooks 9:11 Dec 3, 2024 82 Microsoft Fabric Spark Diagnostic Emitter for Logs and Metrics 14:41 Dec 11, 2024 84 Fabric's Native Spark: The end of the JVM Bottleneck 5:43 Aug 25, 2025
Data Science and Machine Learning
No. Episode Length Published
19 Data Science in Microsoft Fabric – Data preparation and exploration with Data Wrangler 19:15 Aug 15, 2023 28 Data Science in Microsoft Fabric – Model scoring with PREDICT 25:32 Sep 26, 2023 37 R (Programming Language) in Microsoft Fabric - An Insightful Overview with Fabric Product Group 16:52 Nov 21, 2023 40 Model & Experiment Tracking in Fabric Data Science (MLFLOW) 20:24 Dec 5, 2023 41 Autologging and MLFlow in Fabric Data Science 15:16 Dec 12, 2023 48 Fabric Data Science Sales Forecasting: Predict sales numbers for product categories at a superstore. 29:11 Mar 21, 2024 49 Fabric Data Science Cust churn scenario - when a customer will stop doing business with the bank. 33:01 Mar 26, 2024 56 Microsoft Fabric Data Science - Detecting Machine Failure (Classification). 23:51 Jun 4, 2024 68 Data Wrangler in Microsoft Fabric (an immersive interface for exploratory data analysis) 19:05 Sep 3, 2024 69 AutoML in Fabric Data Science - automated model training and optimization (do more with less work!) 19:05 Sep 10, 2024 78 Hyperparameter tuning in Fabric Data Science 13:20 Nov 12, 2024 80 Low Code AutoML UI in Microsoft Fabric Data Science 12:00 Nov 26, 2024
Warehouse
No. Episode Length Published
12 Fabric Espresso: Table clone in Warehouse within Microsoft Fabric 5:56 Jul 6, 2023 14 Performance at Scale with Microsoft Fabric: Query Processing! 9:04 Jul 27, 2023 16 Performance at Scale with Microsoft Fabric: Query Optimizations! 7:31 Aug 3, 2023 18 Performance at Scale with Microsoft Fabric: Concurrency! 5:46 Aug 10, 2023 20 Learn to Share a Microsoft Fabric Warehouse! 6:50 Aug 17, 2023 29 Utilization Reporting for Warehouse! 8:19 Sep 28, 2023 30 Caching in data warehousing 4:03 Sep 29, 2023 39 Microsoft Fabric Capacity Smoothing and Data Warehouse Throttling 14:55 Nov 30, 2023 42 CSV ingestion performance improvements 5:03 Dec 14, 2023 43 Automated maintenance features in Fabric Warehouse 10:30 Jan 4, 2024 45 Consume Warehouse data from other services 6:47 Feb 29, 2024 52 Automate your interactions with Fabric Warehouse 5:33 Apr 23, 2024 54 Optimize Warehouse costs with capacity pause and resume 10:16 May 21, 2024 64 Mirroring 6:59 Aug 1, 2024 66 Ingesting data into Fabric Warehouse 5:53 Aug 20, 2024 74 Performance best practices 17:24 Oct 16, 2024 88 Data Clustering on Fabric Data Warehouse 10:41 Nov 19, 2025 89 Data Clustering on Fabric Data Warehouse 10:41 Dec 2, 2025
Data Factory and Dataflows
Real-Time Intelligence and KQL
Governance, Security, and Purview