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Standardising and polishing the Signals tutorials

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Overall the changes look good to me - thanks for a massive lift here @mscwilson !


To retrieve the calculated attributes from the Profiles Store, Signals provides a configuration wrapper called a service. It allows you to retrieve attributes in bulk, from multiple views.

Using services is optional: you could also reference the views directly in your application code.
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I think we need to push Services more aggressively, and explain that they define the data contract for what the application expects. So I would not call them optional - I would say recommended.

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The test method returns the most recent 10 rows. The first column shows the entity values, in this case for the session entity `domain_sessionid`.
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I don't think it's quite right that it retrieves the most recent 10 rows - I remember it being 10 random users / entities calculated from events in the last hour. @matus-tomlein can you confirm?


## Next steps

Learn more about the Signals possibilities in our other Signals tutorials.
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Can we link them here?

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