July '25 - Fabric and Power BI update
Just when I thought the product team might be slowing down for year end and the summer break, they've only gone against my expectations and not only dropped a July feature - but a couple of updates since. Given this one wasn't expected, I'm not going to be able to do my usual breakdown of what is GA and what's not - but I'll try to call it out as we go along. Up first we've got a fairly major update to the Spark compute - one that changes the billing approach Autoscale billing for spark (GA - Generally Available) For those that haven't seen it, this is a pretty big shift in the way that the spark compute is billed. Most of you are probably familiar with the SKU based approach that Fabric follows - that is that you bay for a particular license level and you get a number of compute units (think of it as credits) to spend on the activities you do in Fabric. The idea being that it gets around the difficulty of budgeting for the CFO that consumption based proces...