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Does Your Product Work in São Paulo? A Geo-Testing Lab Notebook, With Providers Compared

Teams ship localized products from a laptop in a headquarters timezone and discover localization in production

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-16

20 min read

Evaluating a Scraping API on Engineering Criteria, Not Marketing Claims: Oxylabs and Thordata, Rubric-Style

Vendor evaluations drift to whichever features get demos, and scraping APIs are mostly un-demoable — their quality shows up as a distribution curve on your own targets, three weeks in.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-16

20 min read

How to Test a Residential Proxy: Speed, Location, and Reliability Checklist

Test residential proxy speed, location, security, and reliability before using it in production.

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greta

2026-09-16

10 min read

Java Scraping Timeout Fix: Proxy Optimization Guide

In Java web scraping development, request timeouts and connection instability are common obstacles that affect data collection efficiency

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mia

2026-09-15

8 min read

Every CAPTCHA Your Fare Aggregator Meets Costs You Money: A Travel Data Team's Field Notes

Travel meta-search lives and dies on fare freshness.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-11

20 min read

Your Vision Model Aced the Benchmark and Failed the Shelf: Closing the Gap With Multimodal Datasets

Computer vision models that perform brilliantly on academic benchmarks routinely fail on real retail shelves

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-11

20 min read

What Can You Actually Train With 6 Billion Videos?

Every video dataset pitch leads with a big number.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-11

20 min read

The Residential Proxy Audit: Why a 10-Million-IP Pool Still Gets Blocked (With an Honest Thordata vs. Decodo Comparison)

IP pool size is the most-quoted and least-predictive stat in the proxy market.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-11

20 min read

Before You Sign That Enterprise Proxy Contract: A Total-Cost Review of Oxylabs vs. Thordata

Enterprise proxy contracts are bought on trust and priced on volume — and the second part is where budgets get quietly misallocated.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-11

20 min read

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