Data news and analysis on Web Pulse: 577 curated articles tracking the latest Data developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded a $25.1 million no-bid contract to Bi2 Technologies on May 22 for iris biometric recognition technology and database access, allowing agents to authenticate iden…
The article describes a structured approach to software design, using the "Post a message" use case to demonstrate the sequential creation of three diagrams: a flowchart, a functional diagram, and a sequence diagram. It …
By 2026, distributed tracing has replaced logs as the primary debugging method for microservices, with OpenTelemetry becoming the universal instrumentation standard. OpenTelemetry's auto-instrumentation allows developers…
PostgreSQL 17 introduces significant performance improvements for partitioned tables, including better partition pruning that can now filter on multiple columns even when they are not the partition key, and extended part…
This article provides practical strategies for performing database migrations safely in production environments, emphasizing that standard development approaches can lock tables and cause downtime on large datasets. It r…
The article describes the creation of a real-time Collaborative Task Board for the Google I/O Challenge 2026, built using Google Gemini in AI Studio. The app features live user presence, adaptive cursor trails, anti-coll…
The author spent most of their daily study session on an HTML course from W3Schools, covering topics from Introduction to Formatting while practicing in VS Code. They also created a modified version of a Hangman game in …
This article summarizes a hands-on project that demonstrates how to monitor containerized applications on Amazon ECS using Amazon CloudWatch. The project involves deploying an application, configuring CPU and memory reso…
This article, part of ThatDevPro's 14-tier Engine Optimization stack, explains Tier 4, which focuses on building long-term brand authority through advanced entity positioning and reputation management. It details impleme…
This article outlines "Tier 2" of a 14-tier SEO stack, focusing on improving search visibility through crawl budget, sitemaps, and internal links. It details a content strategy framework that includes search intent mappi…
This article, part of the "14-tier Engine Optimization stack" from ThatDevPro, defines Tier 1 as the non-negotiable technical foundation for any website. It outlines five sub-clusters of essential optimizations, includin…
This article describes Tier 8 of the 14-tier Engine Optimization stack, which focuses on closing the loop between website visibility and revenue through data, analytics, and conversion tools. It explains that in Google's…
Datrix is a no-code chat interface that allows users to upload datasets and receive interactive charts and trained machine learning models by asking questions in plain English, with Gemma 4 handling all Python code gener…
The article describes how to build a persistent data store for a .NET web API using PostgreSQL and Entity Framework. The author explains the process of installing PostgreSQL, creating a database, and configuring Entity F…
This article explains how to build a custom database connection framework for ASP.NET minimal APIs using ADO.NET and SQLite, replacing Entity Framework to gain full control over SQL queries. The author demonstrates creat…
The article describes how a solo developer from Argentina built YouGuide, a mobile app that uses background geolocation to trigger audio stories at over 600 historical and natural points across 90 cities. The developer e…
The article explains that CPU-side timers in Go are unreliable for measuring GPU kernel execution time because CUDA kernel launches are asynchronous, meaning the CPU only measures the time to enqueue the task rather than…
The article describes how Veltrix's web-based Treasure Hunt Engine initially struggled with performance as its user base grew, despite adding more hardware and developers. The root cause was a flawed caching strategy bas…
The article explains that Server-Sent Events (SSE) offer a simpler, browser-native alternative to WebSockets for building UIs that require live updates, progress indicators, or log streaming. Unlike polling, which genera…
The article explains that Git is fundamentally a content-addressable filesystem, not just a version control system, and that its core is the object store located in the `.git/objects` directory. It describes Git's four o…