Birthday Bash: Solar System Explorer
I created this app primarily to explore what is possible with Fabric Apps and to push beyond the boundaries of a traditional Power BI experience. The aim was to build something visually engaging, interactive, and with a genuine “wow factor”, while demonstrating the kinds of experiences that would be difficult or impossible to create in Power BI. It was also an opportunity for me to experiment, learn and get a better understanding of the app creation and publishing process. I'm very happy with the result! Try it here: https://rapid-moor-e28db103c2-westeurope.webapp.fabricapps.netBirthday Bash: Fabric Fit Quiz
For the Birthday Bash I built the Fabric Fit Quiz, a public Fabric App anyone can try without signing in. Eight questions give you a Fabric fit score, the two areas to work on first, and how you compare with everyone who has taken it. Scores live anonymously in the app's Fabric SQL database, written through the generated GraphQL API with anonymous create and read only. Try it here: https://lyric-mango-4c40fa1b96-canadacentral.webapp.fabricapps.netBirthday Bash: Light a Window
For my second Birthday Bash entry I built Light a Window, a public Fabric App for Hanukkah. Anyone can open it, no sign in needed. Press one button and you light a candle for tonight. The menorah in the window lights up, helper candle first, and your own window switches on in a street of windows lit by everyone who has visited. Each of the eight nights has a short message rooted in Hanukkah that holds true on any day of the year. Hanukkah begins on the evening of December 4, so until then you can light a candle early and it will burn on the first night. Under the hood it is a Fabric App with a single table in Fabric SQL, written and read anonymously through the generated GraphQL API with create and read only. The street is drawn from grouped counts per night and per country, and the country is guessed from your browser's time zone, with no location prompt. Light yours here: https://glad-ivy-fd1a59f087-canadacentral.webapp.fabricapps.net Happy Hanukkah.
Birthday Bash: Fabric Explorer
Fabric tenants grow faster than anyone can document them. Nobody can say how the platform is built, where a number on a report comes from, what a capacity is spent on, or who can reach what. This Fabric App lets the data platform draw itself. It opens on a Cockpit of every capacity: use, throttling, cost by day and what drove each spike. Below it, a map of every workspace and how they depend on each other. Open any workspace and it is drawn as an architecture, from source systems through each lakehouse layer to models and reports, each item showing why it sits there. Nothing is drawn by hand or configured per tenant. Add a notebook or report and it appears in the right place on the next refresh. Walk a report number back to its source, follow a record through every layer, and switch on governance and security views. It runs on the customer’s own capacity, so nothing leaves their tenant.
