Publications
Long-form writing from the team. Studies, compendia, and the occasional close look at the work itself. Hover any cover to crack it open.
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A real-world journey building a complete solution in Microsoft Fabric. The good, the tricky, and everything in between. What we planned, what we built, and where the two didn't quite line up, ending with a platform people actually use.
Project Azgzaw
Six months exploring what Microsoft Fabric could really do, then the build that came out of it. Lakehouses, Copy Jobs, Notebooks, Dataflow Gen 2, pipelines, Direct Lake semantic models, Power BI, row-level security, the lot. £100k+ in annual time savings, hundreds of hours reclaimed from manual reporting, and a handover that took.
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In May 2023 the Department for Transport released the full MOT 2022 dataset: forty million tests, every manufacturer, every reason for failure. We pulled it apart over a few weekends to answer the questions that wouldn't leave us alone, and compiled what we found.
A Compendium of MOT Tests, 2022
Forty million MOT tests from the Department for Transport, taken apart and put back together. Which manufacturers had the highest pass and fail rates. How many motorbikes are actually on UK roads. The single biggest reason cars fail their MOT. The questions, the methods, and the answers, with the workings shown.
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Coming in the next few weeks.
Another field-built piece is on the way. We'll add it here when it lands. If you'd like a quiet heads-up when it does, write to us and we'll send a copy when it goes out.
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