Most build vs buy threads are about cost per request. I'm more curious about the moment it flipped. For people who moved scraping to a vendor, or brought it back in-house: - how many sites or sources were you running? - how much of someone's week went to fixing parsers and blocks? - what made you switch? A big redesign, a new anti-bot vendor, the person who built it leaving? And for people still running it in-house at scale, what keeps it worth it?   submitted by   /u/LucasRobert85 [link]   [comments]