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Welcome to the Advancing Analytics blog. We’re a bunch of data and AI specialists who build modern platforms and make messy data behave.

You'll find a trove of posts and video here, focused on AI and machine learning, data engineering and analytics. Our blogs are all based on what we’re seeing in the real world - with lessons learned from the sharp end of delivery. 

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Make Data Quality Simpler with Databricks
Data quality is the kind of topic that gets the same reception as "Documentation" when...

3rd November, 2025

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Delta vs Iceberg – Does It Even Matter Anymore?
"You won't find an unbiased comparison of Lakehouse storage formats anywhere!" I said this...

19th August, 2025

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10 Top Announcements from FabCon Europe
Hot off the success of FabCon in Las Vegas in March, the team behind the European Microsoft...

7th October, 2024

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Data + AI Summit recap - Data sharing announcements
Amid the plethora of announcements coming out of the DATA + AI Summit a few weeks back, there...

17th July, 2022

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Design an Azure Data Platform that InfoSec will love - Azure Storage
This is the third in a series where I look at all of the resources common to a Data Lakehouse...

3rd May, 2022

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Design an Azure Data Platform that InfoSec will love – Azure...
In the first post of this series, I set out the foundation of our secure Data Lakehouse. It...

24th April, 2022

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Design an Azure Data Platform that InfoSec will love
Reference architectures are great! You've got all of the key components in there, nice and...

13th April, 2022

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