568 - With functions in Fabric apps you can wire up Venmo, PayPal, or Shopify and put a paywall on the thing. Whole businesses can sit on top of Fabric as the back end now.

568 - With functions in Fabric apps you can wire up Venmo, PayPal, or Shopify and put a paywall on the thing. Whole businesses can sit on top of Fabric as the back end now.
568 - Fabric apps got a back end, a function, and a secret store. That means real API calls with real credentials, Salesforce or Foundry or anything else. I've waited on this one feature for a long time.
567 - Backend functions let a Fabric app run TypeScript, hit APIs, and keep credentials in a secret store. That's the line between a novelty and something you'd actually ship.
567 - Customers need a portal to drop files into. Now you can build the uploader as a Fabric app and the file lands in your lakehouse on its own. Here's what that unlocks for notebooks.
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563 - Kurt's Fabric app stack: Claude Code and Codex, with OpenCode for local models. The bigger lesson is why the harness matters less than context, and which model gets the plan versus the execution.
563 - It's never been easier to build something cool. Cool and useful are different things. The Fabric app demos people love raise one question: who is this actually for, and will your users feel that?
563 - An agent can spit out a D3 chart in seconds and tailor it exactly to your instructions. Sounds like freedom. Once the fence is gone and the field is wide open, a different kind of problem shows up.
563 - Steve Jobs used one test to justify the iPad, and it applies to every overlapping Microsoft product. Fabric apps are up next. Where do they fit next to Power BI reports and your sources of truth?
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