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Apify mentions (21)

• Automating Data Collection with Apify: From Script to Deployment

  In this article, I will walk you through everything, from crafting your initial scraping script (Actor) using the Apify SDK for TypeScript to deploying it to the Apify Actors Store for seamless data collection, and then, I will show you how to run your deployed Actor on the Apify platform. With Apify, you don't need to be a programming pro to harness the power of web scraping and start gaining insights. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide

  I am surprised nobody mentioned https://apify.com/ and they even offer discount for YC startups as ex-graduate from the YC Combinator program. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• AI tools I have found useful w/ research. What do you guys think? What did I miss?

  Web Scraping, Data Extraction and Automation · Apify ( https://apify.com/ ). Source: about 1 year ago

• How to scrape the web with Puppeteer in 2023

  At this point of the tutorial, I'll take the opportunity to do a bit of self-promotion. I'm the COO of Apify, a cloud platform that helps you develop, run, and maintain your web scrapers easily and efficiently. It comes with tons of features like queue storages and proxies, and it supports Puppeteer without any extra configuration. You can run the above scraper, save results and control everything with a powerful... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Web Search and Scrape

  Apify a saas that can be helpful in this situation since you can use its api to call actors from your java code. Source: over 1 year ago

Google Cloud Dataflow mentions (14)

• How do you implement CDC in your organization

  Imo if you are using the cloud and not doing anything particularly fancy the native tooling is good enough. For AWS that is DMS (for RDBMS) and Kinesis/Lamba (for streams). Google has Data Fusion and Dataflow . Azure hasData Factory if you are unfortunate enough to have to use SQL Server or Azure. Imo the vendored tools and open source tools are more useful when you need to ingest data from SaaS platforms, and... Source: over 1 year ago

• Here’s a playlist of 7 hours of music I use to focus when I’m coding/developing. Post yours as well if you also have one!

  This sub is for Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow as the sidebar suggests. Source: over 1 year ago

• How are view/listen counts rolled up on something like Spotify/YouTube?

  I am pretty sure they are using pub/sub with probably a Dataflow pipeline to process all that data. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Best way to export several GCP datasets to AWS?

  You can run a Dataflow job that copies the data directly from BQ into S3, though you'll have to run a job per table. This can be somewhat expensive to do. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Why we don’t use Spark

  It was clear we needed something that was built specifically for our big-data SaaS requirements. Dataflow was our first idea, as the service is fully managed, highly scalable, fairly reliable and has a unified model for streaming & batch workloads. Sadly, the cost of this service was quite large. Secondly, at that moment in time, the service only accepted Java implementations, of which we had little knowledge... - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago