Data Solutions & Practices
Data is the fundamental resource that powers business operations and drives strategic decisions. We cover modern data practices and the tools, platforms, and approaches organizations use to manage, transform, and get value from their data.
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- Web ProxiesFeature ComparisonOct 26
NetNut Takedown: What Buyers Need to Know
On July 2, 2026, the FBI seized hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a residential proxy network run by Nasdaq-listed Alarum Technologies (ALAR). Researchers and Google allege that at least part of NetNut’s exit-node pool overlapped with Popa, a residential-proxy botnet estimated by Google to have at least 2 million devices. Alarum disputes the allegations…
- Data ScienceInsightOct 23
AI Data Quality: Challenges & Best Practices
Poor data quality delays the successful deployment of AI and ML projects. Even the most advanced AI algorithms can yield flawed results if the underlying data is of low quality. Explore the importance of data quality in AI, the challenges organizations encounter, and the best practices for ensuring high-quality data: Data quality is essential for…
- Web ProxiesBenchmarkOct 23
VPN Benchmark of Top 5 VPN Providers
We tested six leading consumer VPN services, measuring throughput, packet drops over 15 minutes per provider, CPU and RAM use on macOS, and VPN connection behavior under load. Our test on VPN providers show that best VPN services change based on different needs. We combined the six measurements into two scores: Windscribe scored highest on…
- Web ProxiesBenchmarkOct 23
Telegram Proxy Setting: Free Links & Step-by-Step
Telegram supports two proxy types in its apps: SOCKS5 and MTProto. SOCKS5 uses a server and port, with username and password optional. MTProto uses a server, port, and a required secret. Telegram also supports proxy links that can open and prefill these settings for you. We tested the free tiers of three SOCKS5 Telegram proxies…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkOct 23
5 Best Scraping Browsers
Scraping browsers come in two forms: remote browsers that plug into existing Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium scripts, and API-based solutions where you define browser actions in the request. We benchmarked the top scraping browsers on sites with login walls, infinite scroll, and strict anti-bot rules. Ideal for enterprise-scale projects with high traffic needs. Bright Data…
- Proxy Use CasesBenchmarkOct 22
The Best Twitter (X) Proxies: Benchmark & Providers
We test proxies on x.com every 15 minutes from 4 continents, across residential, datacenter, mobile and web unblocker products. At our request rate, datacenter proxies often matched or beat residential proxies on success rate and were faster. Web unblockers had the most consistent success rates, but their response times differed widely between providers. Each provider…
- Proxy ComparisonsFeature ComparisonOct 22
Decodo Review: Pricing, Speed & Success Rates
Decodo is a proxy and web-scraping provider covering residential, ISP, mobile, and datacenter proxies plus scraping APIs. We benchmarked its per-GB pricing against competing providers from 10 GB to 10 TB and reviewed its published performance and feature set. Our proxy pricing benchmark found Decodo to be the cost-efficiency leader across all tested volumes, delivering…
- Web Data ScrapingBenchmarkOct 22
Top 5 Job Posting Scraper APIs Compared
We benchmarked 5 leading web scraping providers across 5 major job platforms by running 12,500 requests in total, then measured each provider’s success rate, completion time, and metadata output. You can read benchmark methodology section for more details on the testing process = supported, returns HTML = supported, returns structured data = no data returned…