If you missed the recent deprecation notice for Cloud-Scaled Analytics in the Cloud Adoption Framework, including the deprecation of Data Landing Zones, then this might be the post for you.
Azure Data Platforms are fading away, making way for Fabric and Databricks to become the frontrunners for building data platforms in Microsoft's data and analytics ecosystem.
This isn't groundbreaking news, as we've all felt the shift happening over the last two years, but the recent announcement is the final call for us to rethink how we approach platform design.
https://marczak.io/posts/2026/06/azure-data-platforms-end-of-era-databricks-fabric/