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When to use Data Factory vs. Data Engineering platforms in Fabric

I am trying to understand what are the best use cases for proforming ETL and data engineering tasks in the Data Factory platform vs. Data Engineering platform in Microsoft Fabric. I want to understand why/when I should be using one platform over the other to do my data engineering work. 

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Natalie_iTalent
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Hello @Anonymous,

I am one of the Fabric Community Managers.  I checked with our product team regarding your question and they provided me with this link for you: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/decision-guide-pipeline-dataflow-spark

 

Best,

Natalie H.

Community Manager 

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