1d ago · 8 min read · A few months ago, I ran into a scraping problem that made absolutely no sense. One of my e-commerce monitoring pipelines had been running smoothly for weeks. The stack was straightforward: Playwright
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Jan 19 · 3 min read · You open a website. It loads instantly. You assume your browser is talking directly to the server. Most of the time, it isn’t.Between you and the server sits an invisible middleman, one that filters traffic, caches responses, blocks attacks, and some...
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Dec 27, 2025 · 4 min read · 🎯 What this project consolidates You already know CI/CD. Now we consolidate runtime architecture. You will practice: Docker Compose (real-world usage) Service-to-service communication Reverse proxying with Nginx Port isolation (security thinking...
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Nov 27, 2025 · 3 min read · How to Rotate Residential Proxies in Python to Avoid 403 Errors Web scraping at scale often hits a wall: the 403 Forbidden error. Modern Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are increasingly aggressive at detecting non-human traffic. While rotating User-...
Join discussionNov 6, 2025 · 3 min read · 💡 Introduction In many corporate or home lab environments, using a proxy server helps control and monitor outgoing internet traffic, improve caching efficiency, and enhance network security. One of the most widely used open-source proxy servers is S...
Join discussionOct 31, 2025 · 20 min read · After building a few CLI tools in Go — from a task tracker to a movie fetcher, and even a GitHub activity tracker — I wanted to explore something a little deeper.Something that combines networking, concurrency, and caching, while still keeping things...
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Oct 30, 2025 · 5 min read · I always used to get confused between a Forward Proxy and a Reverse Proxy—both seem similar, but they serve very different purposes in the world of networking and security. In this blog, I will break down these concepts with clear diagrams and real-w...
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Oct 22, 2025 · 4 min read · What is a Proxy? A proxy is like a middle person that acts on behalf of someone else — whether that’s a human or a computer. In technical terms, a proxy is a middle layer between a client (for example, a web browser) and a server (for example, google...
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Oct 22, 2025 · 3 min read · Sniffing network packets in Python has always been tricky — especially on Windows, where raw sockets behave differently than Linux or macOS. I faced this challenge while trying to capture packets on specific ports, parse them, and analyze their paylo...
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