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Exploring Powerful Power BI Dashboards for Smarter Decision-Making

Exploring Powerful Power BI Dashboards for Smarter Decision-Making

May 25, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
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.
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A Runnable Reference Architecture for Industrial IoT on InfluxDB 3

May 22, 2026 By Ian Clark In InfluxData
Industrial teams keep telling us the same thing: the data is there, but the stack to act on it isn’t. PLCs, CNCs, SCADA systems, vibration sensors, and quality stations all generate high-frequency telemetry that gets stranded in proprietary historians or stitched together with point integrations nobody wants to own. By the time anyone looks at it, the moment to act has passed.
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A Runnable Reference Architecture for Network Telemetry on InfluxDB 3

May 21, 2026 By Mike Devy In InfluxData
Networks generate the most data of any system in your stack and have the least patience for stale dashboards. Interface counters tick every second. BGP sessions flap. Flow records arrive in bursts. When something goes wrong, you don’t have 10 seconds to wait for an aggregation to finish.
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The product analytics you already have

May 21, 2026 By Rahul Chhabria In Sentry
You already have everything you need. If you’re using Sentry, you have traces, structured logs, and now application metrics. Most teams use that stuff for debugging and stop there. But get this: that same data can answer most of the product questions you’ve been sending to a separate analytics tool, maintained by a separate team, with a separate data model and a separate bill. (Not all of them.
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Get Kafka-Nated S2E5: Nobody Understands Kafka Costs

May 19, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
In this episode of Get Kafka-Nated, host Hugh Evans is joined by Stanislav Kozlovski, Apache Kafka committer, independent consultant, and author of 2 Minute Streaming — a newsletter with over 7,000 subscribers. After six years at Confluent, including time on the Kafka Serverless team, Stan went independent and has been writing and consulting full-time. He's one of the most recognised voices in the Kafka community, with over 50k followers across social media. In this session we go somewhere the streaming industry rarely goes honestly: Kafka costs.
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Community Spotlight: A Native iOS App for Your InfluxDB Data

May 19, 2026 By Ashley Fowler In InfluxData
One of the things we love most about building an open source platform is seeing what the community creates with it, and independent developer Anton Havekes recently built something we just had to share. Anton put together Influx Dashboard, a native iOS app that connects to your InfluxDB instance and brings your time series data straight to your phone. We’re genuinely thrilled to see this kind of work come out of the community.
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Aiven

A Developer's Guide to Aiven Apps

May 19, 2026 By Tibs (Tony Ibbs) | In Aiven
We recently announced the Limited Availability (LA) launch of Aiven Apps, which lets teams define, run, and scale production-ready, real-time applications using container and Compose-based workflows they already know. It provides a managed, stateless runtime that runs directly inside your data perimeter, letting you deploy applications alongside open-source data services like PostgreSQL and Apache Kafka.
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How Ecommerce Brands Track Regional Price Differences Online

How Ecommerce Brands Track Regional Price Differences Online

May 19, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Many online stores display different prices depending on the user's location. The same product may cost less in Eastern Europe, more in the United States, and have completely different discounts in Germany or France. There are several reasons for this: This is especially common in marketplaces, electronics, fashion, and travel-related ecommerce. For international brands, understanding these pricing differences has become an important part of market analytics.
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5 Best Embedded Systems Development Companies with In-House Lab Infrastructure

5 Best Embedded Systems Development Companies with In-House Lab Infrastructure

May 18, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Embedded programs often fail because hardware is not properly validated. In-house lab infrastructure is a strong sign that a development partner owns validation, speeds up iteration, and reduces accountability gaps. The embedded systems market was valued at $114.75 billion in 2025 and is projected to grow at a 7.10% CAGR through 2034, increasing demand for partners with in-house testing capability.
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Sustainability as opportunity: a new collaboration between Aiven and OxygenIT

May 17, 2026 By Julie Bastien | In Aiven
Many businesses see emissions reduction as a cost sink: assigning people, maintaining compliance, the hard labor of calculating carbon signatures. That view is out of date – and a new partnership between Aiven and data provider OxygenIT demonstrates why. Our premise: your carbon footprint isn't just about understanding emissions; it's about understanding your business. Today, we're announcing a new service that helps with both.
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