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Exploring Powerful Power BI Dashboards for Smarter Decision-Making

Operational dashboards help teams answer urgent business questions quickly. They show whether production is on track, inventory is healthy, downtime is rising, or resources are being stretched too thin. This article explores practical Power BI dashboard examples for operational efficiency across production, supply chain management, resource planning, and performance measurement. It also explains how to build dashboards that support real decisions rather than simply displaying data.

Essential Mac Maintenance Tips for Operations Professionals

Operations professionals rarely have the luxury of working slowly. Their day consists of managing deadlines and analyzing reports, communicating between teams, and organizing files. It also involves constantly switching between dozens of services. At this pace, the Mac becomes the hub of daily coordination. That's why performance speed, system stability, and macOS predictability have a direct impact on performance. Most Mac issues arise from a lack of regular maintenance. Chaotic background processes, overflowing storage, outdated security settings, and more can gradually turn even a powerful MacBook into an unstable device.

Shopify outage on May 22, 2026 impacted merchants worldwide

On May 22, 2026, merchants using Shopify experienced a brief but widespread disruption that affected access to product pages, collections, and administrative tools. While the outage lasted less than an hour, it created immediate challenges for businesses that rely on Shopify to manage inventory, update products, and operate online stores. StatusGator detected the developing incident at 10:20 UTC using Early Warning Signals, 18 minutes before Shopify officially acknowledged the outage at 10:38 UTC.

Your Microsoft Azure storage, our data lake power: The best of both worlds

The wait is over for Azure-first organizations. Cribl just launched Cribl Lake Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS) for Microsoft Azure, giving you full data lake power without moving a single byte of telemetry out of your environment. Join us to see how you can finally get the flexibility of a modern data lake while keeping your data in Azure.

How to measure developer experience (DevEx) in the AI era

As AI coding assistants dramatically inflate PR counts, commit frequency, and lines of code, the limitations of individual output metrics have never been more apparent. A developer can now produce significantly more lines per session, but higher volume doesn’t guarantee that the code is stable, maintainable, or successfully running in production. GitClear analyzed over 200 million lines of code and found that code churn nearly doubled following widespread AI adoption.

The Checkly Playwright Reporter: Live Demo, Rocky AI RCA & Production Monitoring

Your Playwright tests catch bugs. The hard part is figuring out what actually broke — and sharing that context with your team. This session shows exactly how the Checkly Playwright Reporter solves that: one shared home for all your test runs, AI-powered root cause analysis, and a direct path from failing test to production monitor. María de Antón, PM for Playwright features at Checkly, runs a live demo on a real app with real failures.

Zero to Dashboard with Grafana Assistant and the Infinity datasource plugin

Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven demonstrates how to go from zero to dashboard in a few minutes without using any queries, with the help of Grafana Assistant and the infinity datasource plugin for Grafana. Nicole is using the rawg.io video game database API to visualize games and get recommendations for what to play next!

Episode 11 - Human Choices in an AI Future (Part 1)

What if the biggest risk in the AI era isn't the technology, but waiting for someone else to tell you what to do with it? In this episode of The Intelligent Enterprise, host Tom Stoneman sits down with Karthik Ravindran, General Manager of Enterprise Data and AI at Microsoft, to unpack what it really takes to thrive alongside AI, not in spite of it.

Why Traditional Observability Breaks Down in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Hybrid cloud has reshaped the way enterprises build, run, and troubleshoot digital services. Applications now stretch across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, regional services, interconnects, and distributed dependencies that change constantly. Operational complexity has expanded with that footprint, yet many observability practices still reflect assumptions from an earlier era of simpler architectures and clearer boundaries. That gap shows up fast during an incident.