Real-Time…ish – The Dashboard Delusion
"This dashboard says it’s real-time. Why is it showing yesterday’s data?" – "It’s real-time… when the scheduled job finishes running."
🎤 Bonus Insight:
Real-time means different things to different people. To users, it means “up-to-the-second.” To engineers, it means “whenever the ETL stops crashing.” And to dashboards? It means vibes.
True story: One company had a 'Live Dashboard' banner... updated daily at 4am. They added a blinking green dot for effect. Nobody noticed. Everyone felt reassured.
✨ User Review:
“This dashboard changed my life. I now live inside the logs.”