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Performance

Everything on this site involving Performance — projects, articles, research and tools.

Analytics Systems

Power BI Inventory Control Tower

An inventory dashboard built around the four decisions a stock controller makes each week, with a semantic model that stays fast on 40 million rows.

IntermediateDifficulty: Intermediate~16h buildPower BI · DAX · SQL
Video
Data Systems

Microsoft Fabric Analytics Platform

An end-to-end Fabric implementation — lakehouse layering, incremental ingestion, dataflows, semantic model and deployment pipelines — with the decisions that are hard to reverse called out.

AdvancedDifficulty: Advanced~28h buildMicrosoft Fabric · Power BI · Python
Benchmarks

DuckDB vs pandas vs Polars on 50 Million Rows

A reproducible benchmark across six workload shapes, reporting memory as well as time — because memory is what actually stops the job.

BeginnerDifficulty: BeginnerDuckDB · Polars · pandas
Notebook
Modern Data Stack

DuckDB vs pandas vs Polars: When Each One Wins

A practical decision guide based on workload shape rather than benchmark scores — because the fastest tool depends on what you are actually doing.

BeginnerDifficulty: Beginner2 min readDuckDB · Polars · pandas
ChecklistsFree

Power BI Performance Checklist

The 22 checks to run before declaring a semantic model finished.

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Free download