Published onSeptember 18, 2026 (1mo ago)My TLS Fingerprint Benchmark Was Measuring Keep-AliveWeb-ScrapingTLS-FingerprintingCloudflareProxiesBenchmarkingGoI benchmarked 18 browser TLS fingerprints against a Cloudflare-challenged site and one of them won at 94%. Twenty-four minutes later I retra...
Published onSeptember 9, 2026 (1mo ago)Your Crawler Won't Crash. It'll Wedge.Distributed-SystemsWeb-CrawlerGoKubernetesDebuggingObservabilityFive real incidents from a distributed crawler fleet where nothing crashed, no alert fired, and the system quietly stopped doing its job. A ...
Published onSeptember 8, 2026 (1mo ago)How Much of the Web Blocks Bots? I Got the Number Wrong Four Times First.Web-ScrapingAnti-botWeb-CrawlerGoKubernetesData-StudyI scanned the Tranco top 1,000,000 domains to measure how much of the web runs managed bot defense. The final answer is 53.5% of reachable s...
Published onNovember 24, 2025 (11mo ago)After 2025, Can Your Google SERP Crawler Still Survive?Web-ScrapingGoogle-SearchSEOAnti-botAIAn in-depth look at how AI-driven anti-bot defenses, SERP reshuffling, and legal/ethical constraints are reshaping Google search crawling af...
Published onNovember 4, 2024 (1y ago)The Infra to handle 10M Requests in 10 Minutes for $0.0116InfrastructureKubernetesTerraformCloud-ComputingRedisDistributed-SystemsA comprehensive guide to setting up a highly efficient, scalable infrastructure to process 10 million requests in 10 minutes at a minimal co...