What actually consumes your capacity?
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Fabric Capacity Review
Are you paying for the right Fabric capacity — and using it wisely?
A focused review of capacity consumption, workload behaviour and optimisation opportunities before the answer becomes “buy a bigger SKU”.
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?
Start with what is actually happening.
- Capacity peaks appear without an obvious explanation.
- Background operations consume more than expected.
- Refreshes collide or run at inconvenient times.
- Some workloads behave well individually but poorly together.
- The first proposed fix is to increase the capacity size.
WHAT WE NEED TO ANSWER
Good work starts with better questions.
Which workloads are causing avoidable pressure?
Is a larger capacity really necessary?
Where can scheduling, modelling or architecture reduce consumption?
WHAT I REVIEW
The scope follows the problem.
I do not force every engagement through the same checklist. These are the areas that may matter; the agreed scope determines how deep we go.
Capacity Metrics and workload patterns
Interactive vs background operations
Semantic-model refresh behaviour
Dataflows, notebooks and pipelines
Scheduling conflicts
Bursting and smoothing behaviour
Workload distribution across environments
Opportunities to reduce recurring consumption
WHAT YOU GET
Something you can use after the conversation ends.
The output should help you make a decision, change a practice or move the work forward. It should not exist simply to prove that work happened.
Capacity Consumption Review
A readable view of the main consumption patterns and pressure points.
High-Cost Workload Findings
The operations most worth investigating or changing.
Optimisation Opportunities
Concrete ways to reduce or redistribute consumption.
Scheduling Recommendations
Where workload timing can reduce avoidable contention.
Capacity Decision Guidance
A more informed basis for deciding whether a capacity change is justified.
HOW IT WORKS
Enough structure to make the work clear. Not so much process that the process becomes the work.
Context
We start with a short conversation about what is happening, what matters and what has already been tried.
Review
I analyse the relevant parts of the solution or operating model at the depth agreed for the engagement.
Prioritise
I organise observations around impact, risk and usefulness — not around how many issues I can find.
Walkthrough
We go through the findings together, challenge assumptions and discuss trade-offs.
Next step
You decide what happens next: implement internally, continue together or stop because the focused engagement was enough.
YOUR TIME COMMITMENT
I keep the client-side time demand deliberately light. A focused assessment usually needs a kickoff conversation, access or materials, and a final review session. We agree the exact involvement before we start.
A GOOD FIT WHEN
This is likely to help if...
- Capacity usage is growing faster than your confidence in what drives it.
- You are considering resizing and want evidence first.
- You want to connect technical optimisation with cost awareness.
IT MAY NOT BE THE RIGHT FIT IF
- You only need procurement support for a licensing transaction.
- There is no meaningful workload history to analyse yet.
If the problem is real but the format is wrong, that is useful to know early. I would rather redirect the conversation than force the challenge into the wrong service.
FABRIC CAPACITY REVIEW
Are you paying for the right Fabric capacity — and using it wisely?
Bring me the problem, not a polished brief. A few sentences about what is happening and what you would like to change are enough to start.
Tell me what's happeningPREFER TO WRITE?
Send me a message.
You do not need a polished brief. Whether the topic is Power BI, Fabric, AI, team training, mentoring, coaching or simply a challenge that needs untangling, leave a few details and we can start from there.
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