Web Scraping at Scale: From 1K to 10M Pages

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The Scale Problem Scraping 100 pages is a script. Scraping 10 million pages is an engineering challenge. As you scale web scraping, every part of your system gets stressed — network I/O, CPU, memory, storage, and proxy costs. I've built scrapers that process millions of pages. Here's what actually matters at scale. The Scaling Tiers Scale Pages Architecture Typical Infra Small 1-10K Single script Laptop Medium 10K-100K Async + queue Single server Large 100K-1M

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