floppy data

Spent an embarrassing amount of time writing custom retry logic to compensate for bad proxies. My codebase was becoming a fragile mess of fallbacks. https://floppydata.com/residential-proxy-benchmark/ A senior engineer during a code review pointed me here, saying I should fix the root cause instead of patching symptoms. The benchmark identified a provider with native smart retry and sticky session support for USA targets that makes my custom code completely unnecessary. I deleted hundreds of lines of retry logic and my scraper is both simpler and more reliable now. Engineering time spent compensating for bad infrastructure is such a waste. Pick infrastructure that works and keep your code clean.