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Practical research, technical tutorials, and market intelligence written for data engineers, e-commerce teams, and brand protection leaders.
Detecting Unauthorized Sellers: How Brands Lose Millions to Marketplace Arbitrage in India
An investigative analysis into how gray-market distributors, unauthorized resellers, and counterfeit bundles erode gross margins across Blinkit, Amazon, and Flipkart.
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Recent Publications
17 published articles from the feed
Raksha Bandhan 2026 Gifting Price Report: What Cadbury Celebrations and Rakhi Hampers Actually Cost Across Platforms
Live price comparison of Rakhi chocolates and gift hampers across Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart, Amazon and Flipkart from ETS market research.
Distributed Web Scraping at Scale: Orchestrating Scrapy with Redis and Apache Kafka
Architecting horizontal crawling topologies across hundreds of worker nodes with priority queues, bloom filters, and centralized deduplication.
Mastering Scrapy-Playwright: Building High-Throughput Hybrid Pipelines for SPA Extraction
A production blueprint on combining Twisted asynchronous networking with Playwright headless instances to harvest JavaScript single-page apps at 500+ pages per minute.
Running 1,000 Headless Chromium Instances in Kubernetes Without Crashing Your Nodes
Technical techniques for containerizing Playwright: managing shared memory (/dev/shm), process reaping, and optimizing RAM consumption.
Architecting Resilient Proxy Meshes: Load Balancing Millions of Concurrent Extraction Requests
A DevOps blueprint on managing hybrid proxy rotation pools, ISP subnets, health checks, and connection pooling for web extraction clusters.
Detecting Price Anomalies: Time-Series Outlier Detection in High-Frequency Market Data
How statistical filters and isolation forests clean volatility noise, bot scrapes, and platform glitch prices from downstream analytics.
Entity Resolution at Scale: Deduplicating Millions of Unstructured E-Commerce SKUs
Matching unstructured product listings across multiple retail platforms using character-level embeddings and vector-assisted record linkage.
Automating IP Infringement: A Blueprint for Marketplace Notice and Takedown Enforcement
How legal and operations teams can automate IP evidence collection, hash matching, and API takedown requests across marketplace portals.
Web Scraping Legality in India: Navigating the IT Act, DPDP Act, and Public Data Access
An analysis of commercial data extraction within the legal frameworks of the Information Technology Act and the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.
Inside Algorithmic Price Wars: How Automated Repricers Distort Marketplace Value
A mechanical exploration into automated price-matching loops, algorithmic race-to-the-bottom dynamics, and defensive MAP strategies.
The Invisible Stockout: Mapping Dark-Store Inventory Volatility Across Blinkit, Zepto, and Instamart
Analyzing out-of-stock cycles and hyperlocal supply chain friction using automated quick-commerce dark store inventory scrapers.
Algorithmic Brand Defense: Deploying Computer Vision to Detect Counterfeit Product Packaging at Scale
How computer vision vector embeddings identify deceptive knockoffs and counterfeit packaging on leading multi-vendor marketplaces.
Reverse Engineering Mobile APIs: Bypassing SSL Pinning with Frida and Mitmproxy for Retail Datasets
A technical post-mortem on decrypting TLS payloads from native e-commerce and quick-commerce mobile apps using dynamic binary instrumentation.
Scaling Headless Crawlers in 2026: Architecting Resilient Pipelines Against Cloudflare and DataDome
An in-depth engineering blueprint detailing TLS fingerprint randomization, stealth browser automation, and distributed proxy architectures for large-scale data extraction.
Stop Scraping the DOM: Forensic Reverse Engineering of Hidden Marketplace APIs
A field guide to capturing backend JSON payloads from internal mobile gateways and single-page apps, eliminating fragile CSS/XPath selectors.
Fault-Tolerant Proxy Middleware: Circuit Breakers and Exponential Jitter in Scrapy
How to design resilient Scrapy downloader middlewares that handle rate limits, ban detection, and automated IP quarantine without dropping crawl jobs.