@nalakan
Your compass in the Data Universe | Data Whisperer
Data Architect specializing in modern analytics platforms across banking, education, and enterprise environments. Designing scalable lakehouse architectures with Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and dbt, with strong expertise in Power BI, semantic modeling, DAX, and Power Query.
Focused on building secure, high-performance, governed data platforms that enable real-time intelligence and self-service analytics, while exploring how GenAI and Azure AI bring practical intelligence into everyday analytics.
Available for services, mentoring, support, presentations, and speaking activities.
Sep 25, 2025 · 9 min read · 💡 TL;DR: This article presents a complementary approach to Power BI deployments using blue-green deployment strategies with Docker containers, by leveraging existing classic Power BI deployment pipelines along with Azure DevOps pipelines, Fabric CLI...
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Aug 19, 2025 · 10 min read · The RAG tooling ecosystem has exploded-LangChain, LlamaIndex etc and dozens of specialized vector databases each solve pieces of the puzzle beautifully. But enterprise implementations aren't just about technical capabilities; they're about reducing c...
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Jul 26, 2025 · 6 min read · Picture this : you've got valuable data locked away in Microsoft Fabric, perfectly organized and secure. But now you need to share that data with external applications, power dynamic dashboards, or integrate with third-party tools. The question that ...
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Jun 18, 2025 · 3 min read · Have you encountered a situation where a Power BI report seems stuck in time, with slicers for eg: month failing to reflect the latest data? It’s a common frustration - users continue to see outdated selections, even though newer entries have arrived...
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May 22, 2025 · 10 min read · A month ago, I promised on my previous LinkedIn post that I'd show you how to track YouTube live streams from Sri Lanka's prime-time news channels using the Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) capabilities in Microsoft Fabric — and here we are. This blog ta...
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