Hi, I'm Taylor Amy
Data Engineer & Sysadmin sharing practical knowledge from the field.
About Me
I'm a data engineer and systems administrator working at Alberta Health Services, where I serve as the primary administrator for Fabric, Power BI, and a few other systems. I built this blog to share the practical patterns, fixes, and insights I've gathered from working in production environments.
What I Work With
My day to day involves a mix of modern cloud platforms and on-premises infrastructure. I spend most of my time in Microsoft Fabric, but I also manage on-prem Power BI Report Servers, Informatica, and various other data engineering tools. Aside from my sysadmin responsibilities, I also architect and develop scalable data pipelines and data engineering workflows for various projects. This hybrid environment has taught me a lot about bridging the gap between legacy systems and modern data platforms.
🚀 Microsoft Fabric
Primary administrator managing lakehouses, pipelines, and capacity optimization in production.
📊 Power BI
On-prem Report Server management, enterprise deployments, and performance tuning.
🔧 Data Engineering
Working with Informatica, ETL pipelines, and various data integration platforms.
⚙️ Systems Administration
Managing infrastructure, deployments, and keeping production systems running smoothly.
Why I Write This Blog
When you're working in healthcare IT, you run into specific challenges that don't always have easy answers in the docs. I started this blog to document the problems I solve and the patterns I find that work. If I figured something out, maybe it'll help someone else (or future me when I forget how I fixed it).
Topics I Cover
- Microsoft Fabric administration
- Lakehouse patterns & best practices
- Data pipeline optimization
- Power BI Report Server management
- Performance tuning & troubleshooting
- Governance & security
- Hybrid cloud/on-prem architectures
- Real-world fixes & workarounds
Disclaimer: Everything I share comes from real world experience, but your environment is different from mine. Always test solutions in your own setup before pushing to production.
See What I'm Working On
Check out the posts to see what problems I've been solving lately.
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