{"podcast":{"title":"The Good Tech Companies","slug":"the-good-tech-companies-6882802","podcast_index_feed_id":6882802,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-good-tech-companies","website_url":"https://hackernoon.com/tagged/good-company","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/X23h0VTY2caNa7VFhjEOIIx9mhUyM13ZaqyG6noHnYw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMTNl/MjgwMmI0ZmEzNThj/YmJiOWNiN2UyZmRm/MzY3My5qcGVn.jpg","author":"HackerNoon","episode_count":100,"summary":"Distributing the announcements and blogs posts by the the top software, crypto, ai, futurism and technology companies. An audio story feed by HackerNoon.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T22:19:00.701883+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-good-tech-companies-6882802"},"episode":{"title":"The Proxy Metric Engineers Get Wrong Every Time","slug":"the-proxy-metric-engineers-get-wrong-every-time","published_at":"2026-05-25T14:54:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-good-tech-companies-6882802/the-proxy-metric-engineers-get-wrong-every-time","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-good-tech-companies-6882802","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/0dfe2164","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/0dfe2164/dc12ec85.mp3","summary":"This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-proxy-metric-engineers-get-wrong-every-time . IP pool size is a marketing number. Learn which metrics matter when evaluating proxy providers, and what to look for on their websites before you spend a dollar Check more stories related to data-science at: https://hackernoon.com/c/data-science . You can also check exclusive content about #web-scraping , #proxy-servers , #proxy-metrics , #proxy-rotation , #proxy-providers , #proxy-networks , #scraping-infrastructure , #good-company , and more. This story was written by: @webintelligencehub . Learn more about this writer by checking @webintelligencehub's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . IP pool size is the most advertised proxy metric and the least useful one. Success rate is what tells you how a provider performs. And before committing to any provider, there are three signals worth checking on their website: uptime data, proxy type transparency, and pricing model flexibility. Providers that surface all three clearly are the ones worth considering.","meta_description":"This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-proxy-metric-engineers-get-wrong-every-time . IP pool size is a marketing…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":640,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-good-tech-companies-6882802/episodes/the-proxy-metric-engineers-get-wrong-every-time/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-good-tech-companies-6882802/the-proxy-metric-engineers-get-wrong-every-time.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}