Storage Wars: Choosing the right house for your data | Vlad Kireyev | SSW User Groups

📞 Contact us: https://bit.ly/4fAFrVx In this session, Vlad Kireyev breaks down one of the most important decisions in Microsoft Fabric: when to use a Lakehouse and when to use a Warehouse. Using the “Storage Wars” analogy, he explains how both storage options are built on the same underlying data format, but serve very different purposes depending on your workloads, users, and reporting needs. You’ll learn the strengths and trade-offs of each approach, including support for structured and unstructured data, Spark notebooks, SQL performance, Power BI integration, and machine learning workflows. Vlad also walks through how Lakehouses and Warehouses fit together inside a Medallion Architecture, showing why this is rarely an either-or choice and more often about using the right tool at the right stage of your data platform. The session also includes a practical Microsoft Fabric demo, guidance on moving data through bronze, silver, and gold layers, and a high-level look at security and governance considerations. If you’re building analytics solutions in Fabric and want a clearer mental model for designing modern data platforms, this talk is a great place to start. 00:00 | Introduction: the “Storage Wars” analogy 01:28 | Lakehouse vs Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric 01:54 | Meet Vlad Kireyev 02:17 | SSW Rewards app 02:44 | Agenda 03:34 | Lakehouse vs Warehouse: storage, Spark, SQL, and users 06:52 | Strengths and trade-offs of each option 09:36 | How to choose the right home for your data 11:17 | Medallion Architecture: bronze, silver, and gold 15:55 | How it all fits together 17:17 | Microsoft Fabric demo walkthrough 27:22 | Semantic models explained 28:34 | Security and governance in Fabric 38:59 | Best practices and key takeaways 41:56 | Q&A: data integrity, semantic models, performance, and processing choices 🌐 About SSW: https://linktr.ee/SSWTV 🔗 Links: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/ssw Twitter: https://twitter.com/ssw_tv Facebook: https://facebook.com/SSW.page Instagram: https://instagram.com/ssw_tv Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ssw_tv 👋 Get in touch: Vlad Kireyev – SSW Software Engineer II About: https://www.ssw.com.au/people/vlad-kireyev/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladislavkireyev/ #MicrosoftFabric #DataEngineering #Lakehouse #DataWarehouse #PowerBI #MicrosoftDataPlatform #BigData #DataArchitecture #MedallionArchitecture #Analytics V1 - Bahjat