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Azure Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric: An Honest Guide to When to Use What

If you're building a data platform on Azure in 2026, you're going to be asked this question: Azure Databricks or Microsoft Fabric? Both run on Delta Lake, both integrate with ADLS Gen2, both have Spark, and both promise to be your unified data platform. The overlap is real, and the marketing doesn't help. This post is an honest breakdown of where each genuinely excels, where they overlap, and how to decide without getting lost in feature comparison tables.

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Cloudflare Changelog

Workflows - Workflows now supports delay functions when retrying

With Workflows, you can configure built-in retry behavior for each step. Previously, you could configure step retries with fixed delay durations, such as seconds, minutes, or hours, and backoff strategies such as constant, linear, or exponential. Step retries now support dynamic delay functions. Instead of choosing only a base delay and backoff strategy, pass a function to retries.delay and calculate the next delay from the failed attempt and thrown error. This is useful when retries should depe

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The Hacker News

Summer of Clearinghouses

Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and running when we announced it — built quietly months earlier, heads down, taking findings and shipping fixes, because customers kept asking us to. We only announced it now because everyone else started announcing theirs,

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