CiberCuba launches its news archive: 10 years and over 100,000 news articles available instantly by day, month, and year

CiberCuba presents an innovative tool: a that allows users to explore over 100,000 articles published in the last 10 years by our outlet. This archive marks a milestone in content accessibility on the CiberCuba website, offering an optimized and scalable search experience.

With this tool, CiberCuba not only modernizes access to information but also strengthens its commitment to society by facilitating historical analysis and informed decision-making.

Key features

• Intuitive navigation: Users can explore the archive by day, month, or year with a clear and simple interface.
• Quick search: The results are immediately accessible thanks to the optimized infrastructure.
• Free access: The entire database is open to the public at no additional cost.
• Historical coverage: Includes relevant news on politics, economy, culture, and other topics of interest since 2015.

For example, a researcher can select a specific year and, with just a few clicks, review key events related to the Cuban economy during that period.

Technical details

The project is built on a backend deployed on Cloudflare Workers, ensuring high scalability, immediate response times, and significantly low operating costs. Thanks to its globally distributed network, loading times are optimized to the maximum, also reducing the project's carbon footprint and aligning with sustainable practices.

The frontend uses Astro, a cutting-edge framework designed to maximize loading speed and web performance. Astro allows for static content generation, delivering complete pages in a single request to the browser, without the need to load additional JavaScript unless absolutely necessary. This innovative architecture, known as "partial hydration", ensures that only the interactive parts of the page use JavaScript, while the rest remains static, reducing the page weight and speeding up loading times.

The choice of Astro was key to achieving an outstanding score of 99/100 in the Core Web Vitals, positioning this project as a leader in performance and user experience. Its ability to optimize metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and First Input Delay (FID), combined with its focus on sustainability, makes it an unmatched solution in modern web development.

In summary, the combination of Cloudflare Workers for the backend and Astro for the frontend ensures a smooth and optimized experience, notable for its technical performance, sustainability, and scalability.

Uses and benefits

• Researchers: They can analyze historical events and political or economic trends in a straightforward manner.
• Journalists: Quickly access archived news to contextualize their articles.
• Data analysts: They use the file to identify patterns and behaviors in Cuban society.
• Citizens: Find relevant news about events of personal or community interest.

This tool not only enhances access to information but also encourages the creation of original content and critical analysis.

Project Roadmap

The team at CiberCuba has great plans for the future of the archive:

1. Use of artificial intelligence: Implement algorithms that generate objective summaries for each day, providing users with a clear and synthesized view of the most relevant events.
2. Integration with the exchange rate API: Incorporate data from the API developed by CiberCuba, based on information from elTOQUE, to associate each day with the corresponding exchange rate and display graphs of its historical evolution.
3. Creation of a widget: Develop an embeddable widget that allows other websites to insert daily news or news from a specific day, broadening the reach of the CiberCuba archive.
4. Integration with external platforms: Establish connections with analytics tools and social networks to maximize the utility of the file.
5. Mobile application: Design an application for Android and iOS that allows easy and quick access to the archive, with features optimized for mobile devices.
6. Customized alerts: Include notifications for important events, configurable according to user interests.

Technologies used

• Astro: Framework used for frontend development, providing speed and optimization for both static and dynamic content.
• Cloudflare Workers: Serverless infrastructure that allows you to run the project in a scalable way, with high availability and low cost.
• Hono: An ultra-lightweight framework for managing routes on the backend, used within Workers to efficiently process requests and serve data.
• Tailwind CSS: A tool for styling the project with a clean and modern design, optimizing development productivity.
• GitHub Actions: Continuous integration pipeline to automate build and deployment processes securely and at no cost.
• Wrangler: The official CLI tool from Cloudflare for quickly deploying and managing Workers.
• JSON APIs: APIs to feed the system with dynamic data, such as daily exchange rates and file content.

The news archive of CiberCuba redefines how access to informative content is obtained, democratizing information and providing powerful tools for research and analysis. With cutting-edge infrastructure and a focus on sustainability, this tool is designed to make a difference in its field.

Explore the CiberCuba archive today and take advantage of all the benefits of this innovative platform. .