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Power BI
6 May 2026 6 min

KPIs and Cards in Power BI: Designing Scorecards

Designing KPI cards and scorecards in Power BI: when to use the card visual, the KPI visual or scorecards in the Power BI service, why every headline number needs a comparison, measures for prior period, variance and status, a worked row of cards from Microsoft's Financial Sample, and layout rules for a scorecard page.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 5 min

Data Engineering Tools You Must Learn in 2026

A grounded guide to data engineering tools in 2026: the jobs a data platform must do and the tool that usually does each, SQL and Python first, then orchestration, transformation, Spark, storage formats, streaming and cloud, with notes on current versions such as Spark 4, Kafka 4 and Airflow 3, and what to skip.

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AWS
6 May 2026 8 min

Streaming Data with Kinesis to S3 and Redshift

A practical guide to landing streaming data on AWS: Kinesis Data Streams into S3 with Firehose, how size-or-time buffering decides file counts, shown on a real day of 77,033 events, converting to Parquet and partitioning on the way, the two routes into Redshift, duplicates, and the compaction most streams still need.

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GCP
6 May 2026 9 min

BigQuery Federated Queries Explained

A federated query lets BigQuery ask a live operational database a question and join the answer to warehouse tables, with no pipeline in between. This guide explains EXTERNAL_QUERY, shows on a sample database how much pushdown saves and where it stops, and covers connections, pricing, regions and when to replicate.

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MLOps
6 May 2026 8 min

Real-Time Feature Engineering for Online Models

Online models need features from events seconds old, and those features must match the ones the model was trained on. On a month of real New York taxi pickups, this guide builds a streaming window counter, shows a one-character boundary change breaking 3.7% of lookups, and measures what a two-minute lag costs.

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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 9 min

Azure Data Engineering Projects for Your Portfolio

Five Azure data engineering projects for a portfolio, each on real public data and each built to demonstrate one skill an interviewer will ask about: metadata-driven ingestion, incremental loading, Spark cleaning with quality rules, a dimensional model with history, and event-driven processing with alerts.

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