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When there are too many dashboards to sift through, establish an automated deprecation process to keep your BI instance clean.Your dashboards aren’t this critical. Photo from UnsplashHow many dashboards can one person reasonably gain insight from and act upon? While I don’t know the answer (this would actually be a great survey), I hope we can all agree the limit does exist. When we run before we walk and create a dashboard for every question asked without analyzing the question itself, that’s when dashboard bloat…

OpinionA guide on when real-time data pipelines are the most reliable way to keep production databases and warehouses in syncPhoto by American Public Power Association on UnsplashCo-written with John Kutay of StriimData warehouses emerged after analytics teams slowed down the production database one too many times. Analytical workloads aren’t meant for transactional databases, which are optimized for high latency reads, writes, and data integrity. Similarly, there’s a reason production applications are run on…