Level up with Fabric training + The latest in AI, UX & Robotics
Welcome to this month’s edition of Dura Digital’s newsletter. We explore how healthcare teams can close the Microsoft Fabric skills gap with focused training, how conversational apps using OpenAI’s Apps SDK streamline tasks inside the chat, and how Agentic Postgres equips AI agents with native search and safe database operations. We also highlight advances in soft robotics where lifelike artificial muscles improve rehabilitation and comfort.
Optimizing healthcare data solutions with Microsoft Fabric
Healthcare providers are rapidly adopting Microsoft Fabric, creating an urgent skills gap for a consulting agency serving US health systems. To assist with this gap, Dura Digital delivered a tailored training program, grounded in stakeholder workshops and the latest Microsoft guidance, that equipped consultants with Fabric fundamentals: core components, lakehouse architecture, data pipelines, and healthcare-specific governance.
Chat-based apps are moving toward a Jarvis-like experience where tasks happen inside the conversation. OpenAI’s Apps SDK turns that vision into practical UX, reducing choice and friction with focused cards, simple actions, and clear handoffs between chat and visual elements.
Agentic Postgres debuts a Postgres-based database built for AI agents, pairing an MCP server for safe schema and query operations with native semantic search and BM25 full-text search. A new CLI and free tier make it easy to spin up services and integrate agents quickly.
Soft robotics is pivoting to lifelike artificial muscles that sense and learn for natural, safe movement. Layered fibers and machine learning power devices like a prosthetic glove that tunes grip and responds to intent, advancing rehabilitation and comfort.
