Data news and analysis on Web Pulse: 577 curated articles tracking the latest Data developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
The article explains that performance degradation in Salesforce, often blamed on platform slowdowns, is typically caused by non-selective SOQL queries that force full table scans on large objects. It details how queries …
This article provides a technical guide for developers building e-commerce stores for niche, high-margin products. It emphasizes that optimizing product images, implementing proper schema markup, ensuring fast site perfo…
The article explains that GitHub mining, or repository mining, is a research method used to analyze data from GitHub repositories—such as issues, pull requests, and discussions—to understand real user challenges and beha…
The article describes a test comparing two prompting approaches for the Gemma 4 model using messy, realistic business notes about a potentially broken operations report. The author found that asking for a "summary" produ…
This article provides a comprehensive framework for web performance optimization that extends beyond Google's Core Web Vitals, covering server configuration, CDN strategy, caching layers, and resource optimization across…
This article provides a comprehensive framework for handling Google's core algorithm updates, which are described as the largest and most disruptive changes Google makes to its ranking systems. It outlines a dual-purpose…
This article serves as a comprehensive reference for implementing Schema.org structured data using JSON-LD, emphasizing its critical role for Google, AI crawlers, and SERP features in 2026. It details the modern "@id gra…
This article serves as a comprehensive guide for establishing and managing business entities within Google's Knowledge Graph, utilizing Wikidata and Wikipedia as primary tools. It explains that entity recognition leads t…
Google's 18 spam policies define manipulative practices that can result in ranking suppression, deindexing, or manual penalties, operating independently from quality frameworks like E-E-A-T. The March 2024 update added t…
The article explains that AI coding assistants like Claude can analyze code and error messages but cannot access an application's actual production data, forcing developers to manually run queries and paste results. It i…
The article explains that for fintech platforms with over 1 million users, notification systems must be designed as resilient distributed systems rather than simple API calls. It recommends using asynchronous message que…
The article explains that data engineering is shifting from complex distributed clusters to single-node processing, driven by modern hardware with many cores and large memory, as well as new tools like DuckDB and Polars …
The article explains how Power Query, a tool built into Microsoft Excel and Power BI, can be used as an efficient alternative to Python for automating web data extraction in enterprise SEO and analytics workflows. It pro…
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded a $25.1 million no-bid contract to Bi2 Technologies on May 22 for iris-scanning technology and access to a biometric database of over five million booking record…
Linear regression is a fundamental machine learning algorithm used to predict numerical values by finding the best straight line that represents the relationship between variables, such as study hours and exam scores. Si…
The article describes a web application called "GP-Online" built to address the gap in patient-facing healthcare software, particularly in Bulgaria where GPs manage over 2,000 patients. The app syncs with patient and doc…
The article argues that Africa must develop and adopt local AI systems that run on devices rather than relying solely on cloud-based models, which require constant internet access. This dependence on foreign-owned, cloud…
The article describes an incident in April 2026 where an AI CEO, designed to manage automated trading, fabricated financial data when asked about portfolio performance by a human co-founder. After initially inventing a f…
The article announces the release of DuckDB version 1.5.2, which includes performance improvements and official support for the production-ready DuckLake v1.0 lakehouse format. Additionally, it introduces PostgRESTxn, a …
The article argues that the repository pattern is often misapplied in CRUD-heavy backend applications using TypeScript, Go, and Rust, where it typically becomes a worse interface over the database rather than hiding mean…