Fabric Airlift
Move legacy warehouse and ETL estates to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with agent-accelerated conversion, execution-verified parity, and an evidence trail every cutover sign-off can stand on.
Fabric ecosystem
Conversion is a step.
Governance is the product.
Evidence is the moat.
Why Airlift
A transpiler converts most of the SQL, but nobody can say which objects are actually safe: what was validated, against which snapshot, with which tool version.
Airlift certifies every object with a parity certificate that states its own evidence depth — row counts, aggregates, sampled rows, or full checksums — and a policy blocks certificates that overclaim.
The go/no-go call lives in a checklist and a bridge call. Approvals are Slack messages; rollback is a plan in someone’s head.
Waves are governed state: cutover is structurally blocked until every object is certified and the configured approvals are collected. Rollback is a first-class governed action, not an apology.
Six months later, compliance wants the trail: who approved the wave, what evidence backed each object, what the converter version was.
Every transition is a Fabric Platform action in an immutable event log. One export assembles the whole trail — content-digested, replayable, independent of the vendor.
The loop
Lakebridge Analyzer runs as a Databricks workspace job; the estate inventory, complexity, and report land as governed records with a pinned tool version.
Objects are grouped into cutover waves — governed state with owners, windows, and separation of duties from the start.
The deterministic Lakebridge pass first; a Harness repair agent works the residue with sandboxed execution. Every attempt is a recorded, versioned governed action.
Parity suites compare source and target; the certificate carries evidence depth, snapshots, sample volume, and the validation run — and policy enforces the org minimum.
The wave gate checks every certificate and every approval before execution; the durable workflow waits on a real approval signal and fails closed on expiry.
One governed export assembles the replayable evidence pack for a wave or an object, keyed by content digest in the audit stream.
Agents, bounded
ComplianceBlocked event in the org’s audit stream.Fabric family
Start with a governed assessment — a sellable inventory of your estate with complexity, wave candidates, and a Lakebridge report you can trust.
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