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Fabric

From View Metadata to Automation: Lineage and Bulk View Deployment in Microsoft Fabric

A step-by-step guide to extracting Fabric view definitions into metadata tables, then reusing those same tables to power the Rayfin data lineage app and to deploy views into production.

Abdul Alim·8/16/2026·6 min read

Fabric

From Weeks to Days: How Plan in Fabric Reinvents the Budget Cycle

Excel was never designed to be the system of record for enterprise budgeting. Here are the 10 ways manual, spreadsheet-based planning breaks down — and how Planning in Fabric (Plan, in preview) fixes each one.

Abdul Alim·7/19/2026·18 min read

Productivity

Build Your Own Second Brain: Meetily, Claude & Obsidian

A practical guide to turning your meetings, research, and daily work into a local-first knowledge system that compounds — without sending your data to anyone.

Abdul Alim·5/25/2026·18 min read