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Six Weeks, Six Billion Videos: A Builder's Journal

What does it actually take to build a video search product — one where users type a phrase and find the moment inside millions of videos?

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-11

20 min read

How Many Job Postings Can $1,000 Buy? A Recruitment Analytics Team Runs the Numbers

Job market intelligence is a data-math business — the team that collects the most postings per dollar wins the demo.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-11

20 min read

Ten Million Requests With a Headless Browser: A Stress Test, and Where Thordata and Oxylabs Each Win

JavaScript-heavy targets break simple scrapers, so teams graduate to headless browsers — and then discover that browser automation at scale is a bandwidth and reliability problem wearing a tooling costume.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-10

20 min read

Building a Reliable Video Data Pipeline: What to Check Before Model Training

Learn how to evaluate video datasets for multimodal AI using metadata, media quality, provenance, rights, coverage, and delivery checks

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flora

2026-09-09

10 min read

Residential Proxies Explained: How Businesses Use Proxy Infrastructure for Reliable Web Data Collection

Learn how residential proxies work, why businesses use them for web scraping and data collection, and how reliable proxy infrastructure improves large-scale data workflows.

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flora

2026-09-07

8 min read

Your Price Monitoring Pipeline Broke on Black Friday. Here's How to Build One That Won't.

Quick answer: Most e-commerce price monitoring pipelines don't fail because of bad code. They fail because the volume of requests spikes 10–30× during peak shopping events

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-05

20 min read

An SEO Agency's Honest Math: 50 Clients × Daily Rank Checks × 5 Locations

SERP data is a volume business. An agency tracking 50 clients, 100 keywords each, daily, across 5 locations burns 750,000 SERP requests per month before ad-hoc audits are counted.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-05

20 min read

Text Is Cheap, Video Is Gold: Why Multimodal Teams Are Rewiring Their Data Supply Chains

Every multimodal AI team hit the same wall in the last two years. Text data is abundant and well-understood; video data

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-05

20 min read

From $8/GB to $0.65/GB: What Switching Your Scraping Infrastructure Actually Involves

Migrating scraping infrastructure is not a technical project — it's an accounting project with code attached.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-05

20 min read

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