Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence newsletter / January 2026
20 min
Sebastian Jagniątkowski
Published Feb 3, 2026
Welcome to Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence Newsletter!
Here, you’ll find a carefully curated selection of articles and videos focused on real-world Power BI and Fabric challenges - combining performance, best practices, modern development approaches, practical use cases, DAX patterns, and security and governance, and much more. We’ve selected materials aimed at different levels of experience, so you can focus on the topics most relevant to your current challenges. Each resource is chosen for its practical value and real-world applicability, helping you stay up to date while continuously developing your analytics skills.
Below, you’ll find the full list of curated topics from January - explore the ones that matter most to you.
1️⃣ Power BI Modeling: Performance of limited and regular relationships
Why is it interesting? This article proves one simple but critical point: many-to-many relationships can slow down large models by up to 20x. Worth being aware of if you work with big datasets.
Audience: Advanced
Area: DAX / Performance / Data Modeling
2️⃣ Power BI Measure Optimization: The Performance Impact of Filters
Why is it interesting? Reveals critical gotcha where integer filtering on 0 silently fails due to DAX Fusion optimization, breaking measure accuracy without warnings - a real-world production trap.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: DAX / Performance / Debugging
3️⃣ Power BI Matrix: Create Interactive Filters That Actually Work
Why is it interesting? Demonstrates how user-defined functions plus calculation groups drastically reduce measure bloat and make complex semantic models easier to maintain.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: DAX / Report Design / Advanced Patterns
4️⃣ Power BI Security: A practical guide to RLS, OLS and Masking
Why is it interesting? Side-by-side comparison that clarifies when to keep a clean star schema and when limited snowflaking makes sense, including performance and usability trade-offs.
Audience: Intermediate
Area: Security / Governance / Enterprise
5️⃣ Power BI's Smartest Feature: Field Parameters
Why is it interesting? Masterclass video progressing from basic measure selection to advanced dynamic TOPN scenarios and fiscal/calendar year toggles; transforms report interactivity entirely.
Audience: Intermediate
Area: Report Design / Interactivity / Advanced Features
6️⃣ TMDL View in Power BI: What It Means for Developers
Why is it interesting? Game-changing shift to Infrastructure as Code for Power BI - enables bulk measure creation, automated calendar tables, calculation groups all through text-based TMDL code instead of UI clicking.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: Developer Tools / DevOps / Semantic Models
7️⃣ Advanced Power BI Card Design: Layout Guide
Why is it interesting? Comprehensive 4-part guide covering image integration, advanced layout patterns, and collage behavior; teaches professional KPI card design from fundamentals to production-ready.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: Report Design / Visualization / UX/UI
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